The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 41
She had also much to hear about what had happened to them while she was away, and of her father’s journey home.
Who acts: sound, father · What happens: have, hear, happen, be, journey · To what, where: much, brothers · 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 (sound, father), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 much | acl |
| 7 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 happened | mark |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happened | aux |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 hear | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 happened | obl |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 away | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 away | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 away | cop |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 happened | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 journey | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 journey | cc |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 journey | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 journey | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 father | case |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 journey | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | sound | much | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | brothers = brother | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | sound | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | journey | sound's father | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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