The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 39
While she was wondering by what magic the Beast had transported them and herself to this strange place she suddenly heard her father’s voice, and rushed out and greeted him joyfully.
Who acts: sound · What happens: wonder, transport, hear, rush out, greet · To what, where: Beast, voice
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 wondering | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wondering | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wondering | aux |
| 4 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 transported | advcl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 transported | obl |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 what | nsubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Beast | det |
| 9 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 transported | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 transported | aux |
| 11 | transported | transport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 transported | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 herself | cc |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 them | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 place | det |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 transported | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 21 heard | advmod |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 voice | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 father | case |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rushed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 rushed | cc |
| 28 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 transported | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 rushed | compound:prt |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 greeted | cc |
| 31 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 rushed | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 greeted | obj |
| 33 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 31 greeted | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 transported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | sound | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | transport | past · perfect · passive | the Beast | to this strange place | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer they=Result | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | sound | sound's father's voice | suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | rush out | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | greet speech: greet | past | Beast | joyfully property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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