The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 78
As she spoke a blaze of light sprang up before the windows of the palace; fireworks crackled and guns banged, and across the avenue of orange trees, in letters all made of fire-flies, was written: “Long live the Prince and his Bride.”
Who acts: Beauty, light, fireworks · What happens: speak, spring up, crackle, bang, make, write · To what, where: blaze, guns, avenue, Prince · 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 (Beauty, light, fireworks), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 written | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blaze | det |
| 5 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 sprang | mark |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | nsubj |
| 8 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blaze | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 sprang | compound:prt |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 windows | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 windows | det |
| 12 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sprang | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 windows | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 crackled | punct |
| 17 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 crackled | nsubj |
| 18 | crackled | crackle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 guns | cc |
| 20 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 crackled | obj |
| 21 | banged | bang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 guns | acl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 written | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 written | cc |
| 24 | across | across | ADP | _ | 26 avenue | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 avenue | det |
| 26 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 written | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 trees | case |
| 28 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 trees | amod |
| 29 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 avenue | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 letters | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 letters | case |
| 32 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 trees | conj |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 avenue | conj |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 all | acl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 flies | case |
| 36 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 flies | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 fire | punct |
| 38 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 made | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 avenue | punct |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 written | aux:pass |
| 41 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 42 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 45 live | punct |
| 43 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 live | punct |
| 44 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 live | advmod |
| 45 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 41 written | parataxis |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Prince | det |
| 47 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 live | obj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 Bride | cc |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 Bride | nmod:poss |
| 50 | Bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 Prince | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 live | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Beauty | a blaze | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spring up | past | light | a blaze not said here | before the windows of the palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blaze=Theme | |||
| 3 | crackle | past | fireworks | guns | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gun=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bang | participle | guns not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | participle | of fire flies | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 6 | write | past · passive | the avenue of orange trees and letters | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | live in a quote | infinitive | the Prince and light's Bride | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme prince=Location |
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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