The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 60
But when it did come and no Beast appeared she was really frightened; so, after listening and waiting for a long time, she ran down into the garden to search for him.
Who acts: suppertime, Beast, Beauty · What happens: come, appear, frighten, listen, wait, run down · To what, where: Beauty, garden
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 (suppertime, Beast, Beauty), 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 | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 appeared | cc |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 Beast | det |
| 8 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | nsubj |
| 9 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 frightened | aux:pass |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 frightened | advmod |
| 13 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 appeared | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 ran | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 ran | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 so | punct |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 listening | mark |
| 18 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 ran | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 waiting | cc |
| 20 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 listening | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 waiting | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 listening | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ran | nsubj |
| 27 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 ran | advmod |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 garden | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 garden | det |
| 31 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ran | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 search | mark |
| 33 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ran | advcl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 search | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · do-support | suppertime | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | no Beast | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | frighten | past · passive | Beauty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | listen | gerund | Beauty not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wait | gerund | Beauty not said here | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | run down | past | Beauty | into the garden result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result | ||||
| 7 | search | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | for Beast | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=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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