The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 61
Up and down the paths and avenues ran poor Beauty, calling him in vain, for no one answered, and not a trace of him could she find; until at last, quite tired, she stopped for a minute’s rest, and saw that she was standing opposite the shady path she had seen in her dream.
Who acts: paths, one, trace, Beauty · What happens: run, call, answer, find, stop, see · To what, where: poor Beauty, path, vain, shady path, dream · 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 (paths, one, trace, 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 8 ran | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 down | cc |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Up | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 paths | det |
| 5 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 avenues | cc |
| 7 | avenues | avenue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 paths | conj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Beauty | amod |
| 10 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 calling | punct |
| 12 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 ran | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 calling | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 vain | case |
| 15 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 calling | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 answered | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 answered | mark |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 answered | nsubj |
| 20 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 find | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 find | cc |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 trace | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 trace | det |
| 25 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 find | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 trace | nmod |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 find | aux |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 find | nsubj |
| 30 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ran | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 last | punct |
| 32 | until | until | ADP | _ | 34 last | case |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 last | case |
| 34 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ran | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 tired | punct |
| 36 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 37 tired | advmod |
| 37 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 last | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 stopped | punct |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 stopped | nsubj |
| 40 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | conj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 rest | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 minute | det |
| 43 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 rest | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 minute | case |
| 45 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stopped | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 saw | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 saw | cc |
| 48 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | conj |
| 49 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 standing | mark |
| 50 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 standing | nsubj |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 standing | aux |
| 52 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 saw | advcl |
| 53 | opposite | opposite | ADP | _ | 56 path | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 path | det |
| 55 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 path | amod |
| 56 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 standing | obl |
| 57 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 seen | nsubj |
| 58 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 seen | aux |
| 59 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 56 path | acl:relcl |
| 60 | in | in | ADP | _ | 62 dream | case |
| 61 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 62 dream | nmod:poss |
| 62 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 seen | obl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the paths and avenues | poor Beauty | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | the paths and avenues not said here | path | vain | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | no one | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find | could | a trace of path | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | stop | past | Beauty | for a minute's rest | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | see | past | the paths and avenues not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | stand | past · progressive | Beauty | the shady path | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent opposite path=Location | ||||
| 8 | see | past · perfect | Beauty | the shady path not said here | Beauty's dream | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus | |||
| 9 | dream | Beauty | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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