The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 63
Quite glad to have found him, she ran up and stroked his head, but, to her horror, he did not move or open his eyes.
Who acts: Beauty, Beast · What happens: find, run up, stroke, not move, open · To what, where: Beast, head, horror, eyes
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, Beast), 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 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 2 glad | advmod |
| 2 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 found | mark |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 found | aux |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 glad | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 glad | parataxis |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 ran | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stroked | cc |
| 12 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stroked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 move | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 move | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 but | punct |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 horror | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horror | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 move | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 horror | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 move | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 move | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 move | advmod |
| 25 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 glad | parataxis |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 open | cc |
| 27 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 move | conj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 open | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive · perfect | Beast | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||||
| 2 | run up | past | Beauty | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stroke | past | Beauty not said here | Beast's head | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not move | past · do-support | Beast | Beauty's horror | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to horror=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | open | infinitive | Beast not said here | Beast's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=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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