The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 65

But then, looking at him again, she fancied he still breathed, and, hastily fetching some water from the nearest fountain, she sprinkled it over his face, and, to her great delight, he began to revive.

Who acts: Beauty, Beast · What happens: look, fancy, breathe, fetch, sprinkle, begin · To what, where: water, nearest fountain, face

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 looking	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 looking	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fancied	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looking	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fancied	nsubj
10	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 breathed	nsubj
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 breathed	advmod
13	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fancied	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fetching	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fetching	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	18 fetching	advmod
18	fetching	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 fancied	advcl
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetching	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	24 fountain	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fountain	det
23	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 fountain	amod
24	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetching	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sprinkled	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sprinkled	nsubj
27	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fancied	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sprinkled	obj
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 face	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 face	nmod:poss
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sprinkled	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 began	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 began	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 and	punct
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 delight	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 delight	nmod:poss
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 delight	amod
38	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 began	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 delight	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 began	nsubj
41	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fancied	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 revive	mark
43	revive	revive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 began	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	Beauty not said here			then; again	at Beast	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	fancy	past	Beauty					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	breathe	past	Beast			still		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fetch	gerund	Beauty not said here	some water	the nearest fountain		hastily property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from fountain=Source
5	sprinkle	past	Beauty	water	Beast's face			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over face=Destination
6	begin	past	Beast				to Beauty's great delight	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	revive	to-infinitive	Beast not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	delight		Beauty					nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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