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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 32

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At length he made out some sort of track, and though at the beginning it was so rough and slippery that he fell down more than once, it presently became easier, and led him into an avenue of trees which ended in a splendid castle.

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**Who acts:** merchant, sort, avenue · **What happens:** make out, be, fall down, become, lead, end · **To what, where:** sort, length, merchant, avenue, splendid castle, track

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, sort, avenue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:14:32
# text = At length he made out some sort of track, and though at the beginning it was so rough and slippery that he fell down more than once, it presently became easier, and led him into an avenue of trees which ended in a splendid castle.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	though	though	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	avenue	avenue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make out** | past | merchant | some sort of track |  | length |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | sort |  |  |  |  | rough, though *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | sort *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall down** | past | merchant |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **become** | past | sort |  |  |  |  | easy, presently *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **lead** | past | merchant *not said here* | merchant |  | a avenue of trees |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into avenue=Destination |
| 7 | **end** | past | a avenue of trees |  |  | a splendid castle |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 8 | **sort** |  |  | track |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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