The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 62
She rushed down it, and, sure enough, there was the cave, and in it lay the Beast--asleep, as Beauty thought.
Who acts: Beauty, cave · What happens: rush down, be, lie, think · To what, where: trace, Beast
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, cave), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 rushed | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rushed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sure | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rushed | parataxis |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 sure | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cave | det |
| 14 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lay | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lay | obl |
| 19 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Beast | det |
| 21 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | obj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 asleep | punct |
| 23 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Beast | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 thought | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 thought | mark |
| 26 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 thought | nsubj |
| 27 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lay | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush down | past | Beauty | trace | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | be | past | the cave | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | the Beast | trace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Beauty | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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