The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 87
And then she tenderly embraced Beauty and the Prince, who had meanwhile been greeting the Fairy and receiving her congratulations.
Who acts: girl, Beauty · What happens: embrace, greet, receive, congratulate · To what, where: Beauty, Fairy, congratulations
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 (girl, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 embraced | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 embraced | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 embraced | nsubj |
| 4 | tenderly | tenderly | ADV | _ | 5 embraced | advmod |
| 5 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 embraced | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Prince | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Beauty | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 greeting | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 greeting | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 greeting | aux |
| 13 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 15 greeting | advmod |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 greeting | aux |
| 15 | greeting | greet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Beauty | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fairy | det |
| 17 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 greeting | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 receiving | cc |
| 19 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 greeting | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 congratulations | nmod:poss |
| 21 | congratulations | congratulation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 receiving | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | girl | Beauty and the Prince | then | tenderly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | past · perfect · progressive | Beauty and the Prince | the Fairy | meanwhile property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme | |||
| 3 | receive | gerund | Beauty and the Prince not said here | girl's congratulations | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent congratulation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | congratulate | girl | nom congratulation «communication 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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