The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 59

But Beauty thought she had never known such a long day, for she was so anxious to see the Beast again that she felt as if suppertime would never come.

Who acts: Beauty, suppertime · What happens: think, not know, be, see, feel, not come · To what, where: Beast · 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, suppertime), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 thought	cc
2	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 known	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 known	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 known	advmod
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 thought	ccomp
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 day	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 known	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 anxious	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 anxious	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 anxious	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 anxious	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 anxious	advmod
17	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 known	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 anxious	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Beast	det
21	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
22	again	again	ADV	_	19 see	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 felt	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 felt	nsubj
25	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 see	advcl
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 come	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 come	mark
28	suppertime	suppertime	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 come	advmod
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 felt	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Beauty				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not know	past · perfect	Beauty		day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Beauty			anxious property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	Beauty not said here	the Beast	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus
5	feel	past	Beauty				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not come a condition, not said to happen	would	suppertime				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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