The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 4
So everything went on for a long time, until at last, happy as she was, Beauty began to long for the sight of her father and her brothers and sisters; and one night, seeing her look very sad, the Beast asked her what was the matter.
Who acts: everything, Beauty, Beast · What happens: go on, be, begin, see, look, ask · To what, where: Beauty, matter, father · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (everything, Beauty, Beast), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happy | punct |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 happy | mark |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 happy | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 last | punct |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 was | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 happy | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 19 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 long | mark |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 began | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 sight | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sight | det |
| 25 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 began | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 father | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sight | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 brothers | cc |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 31 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 father | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sisters | cc |
| 33 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 brothers | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 night | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 night | cc |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 night | nummod |
| 37 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 seeing | punct |
| 39 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 look | nmod:poss |
| 41 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 seeing | xcomp |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 sad | advmod |
| 43 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 look | xcomp |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 asked | punct |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Beast | det |
| 46 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 asked | nsubj |
| 47 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 asked | iobj |
| 49 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 52 matter | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 matter | cop |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 matter | det |
| 52 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 asked | ccomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | everything | night; time | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | Beauty | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | Beauty | for the sight of Beauty's father and Beauty's brothers and sisters; long property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | everything not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | everything not said here | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | the Beast | Beauty | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | sight | Beauty's father and Beauty's brothers and sisters | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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