The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 26
Then the beast stretched himself in front of the fire, and growled quite happily and comfortably.
Who acts: beast · What happens: stretch, growl · To what, where: beast
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stretched | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beast | det |
| 3 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | nsubj |
| 4 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 stretched | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 front | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 growled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 growled | cc |
| 13 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stretched | conj |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 happily | advmod |
| 15 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 13 growled | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 comfortably | cc |
| 17 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 15 happily | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | the beast | beast | then | in front of the fire | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in front=Topic | ||
| 2 | growl | past | the beast not said here | happily property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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