The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 57

Then she fell asleep instantly, and only woke up to hear the clock saying “Beauty, Beauty” twelve times in its musical voice, which told her at once that she was really in the palace once more.

Who acts: Beauty, clock, musical voice · What happens: fall, wake up, hear, say, tell, be · To what, where: clock, Beauty, palace · 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, clock, musical voice), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fell	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	xcomp
5	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 woke	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 woke	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 woke	advmod
9	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 woke	compound:prt
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hear	mark
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 woke	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clock	det
14	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hear	obj
15	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 clock	acl
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 Beauty	punct
17	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saying	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Beauty	punct
19	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Beauty	conj
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 Beauty	punct
21	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 times	nummod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 saying	obl:unmarked
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 voice	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 voice	nmod:poss
25	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 voice	amod
26	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 times	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 voice	acl:relcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	iobj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 told	obl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 palace	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 palace	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 palace	cop
36	really	really	ADV	_	39 palace	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 palace	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 palace	det
39	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	ccomp
40	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 more	advmod
41	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 palace	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Beauty				then	asleep, instantly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wake up	past	Beauty not said here						tree rules
3	hear	to-infinitive	Beauty not said here	the clock					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer clock=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the clock not said here	Beauty and Beauty			time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent beauty=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	past	clock's musical voice		Beauty				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	is	past	Beauty			the palace			tree rules

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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