The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 58
Everything was just as before, and her birds were so glad to see her!
Who acts: Everything, birds · What happens: be, see · To what, where: Beauty
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, birds), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 before | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 before | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 before | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 before | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glad | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glad | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 birds | nmod:poss |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 glad | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 glad | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 glad | advmod |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 before | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 glad | xcomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 before | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Everything | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Beauty's birds | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Beauty's birds not said here | Beauty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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