The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 50

She thought she was wandering in a lonely path in the palace gardens, when she heard groans which seemed to come from some bushes hiding the entrance of a cave, and running quickly to see what could be the matter, she found the Beast stretched out upon his side, apparently dying.

Who acts: Beauty, groans, bushes, Beast · What happens: think, wonder, hear, seem, come, hide · To what, where: lonely path, groans, bushes, entrance, matter · 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 (Beauty, groans, bushes, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wandering	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wandering	aux
5	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 path	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 path	det
8	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 path	amod
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wandering	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 gardens	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gardens	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gardens	compound
13	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 path	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 heard	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
18	groans	groan	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 heard	obj
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 seemed	nsubj
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 groans	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 come	mark
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 seemed	xcomp
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 bushes	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 bushes	det
25	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 come	obl
26	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 bushes	acl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 entrance	det
28	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hiding	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 cave	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cave	det
31	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 entrance	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 running	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 running	cc
34	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 heard	advcl
35	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	34 running	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 see	mark
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 running	advcl
38	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 see	obj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 matter	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 matter	cop
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 matter	det
42	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 what	acl:relcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 found	punct
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 found	nsubj
45	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Beast	det
47	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 stretched	nsubj
48	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 found	ccomp
49	out	out	ADP	_	48 stretched	compound:prt
50	upon	upon	ADP	_	52 side	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 side	nmod:poss
52	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 stretched	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 dying	punct
54	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	55 dying	advmod
55	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 stretched	advcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Beauty				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	Beauty		a lonely path in the palace gardens		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	hear	past	Beauty	groans			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer groan=Stimulus
4	seem	past	groans				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	come	to-infinitive	groans not said here		some bushes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bush=Initial_Location
6	hide	gerund	some bushes not said here	the entrance of a cave			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Patient
7	run	gerund	Beauty not said here			quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see	to-infinitive	Beauty not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
9	is a	could		the matter			tree rules
10	find	past	Beauty				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
11	stretch out	past	the Beast			upon Beast's side	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
12	die	gerund	the Beast not said here			apparently property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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