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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 38

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When his extreme hunger wakened him after several hours, he was still alone; but a little table, upon which was a good dinner, had been drawn up close to him, and, as he had eaten nothing for twenty-four hours, he lost no time in beginning his meal, hoping that he might soon have an opportunity of thanking his considerate entertainer, whoever it might be.

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**Who acts:** extreme hunger, silence, time, opportunity · **What happens:** waken, be, draw up, eat, lose, begin · **To what, where:** silence, good dinner, little table, nothing, meal, opportunity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (extreme hunger, silence, time, opportunity), 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:pg503:14:38
# text = When his extreme hunger wakened him after several hours, he was still alone; but a little table, upon which was a good dinner, had been drawn up close to him, and, as he had eaten nothing for twenty-four hours, he lost no time in beginning his meal, hoping that he might soon have an opportunity of thanking his considerate entertainer, whoever it might be.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wakened	waken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	advcl	_	_
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	41	obj	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
51	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	52	det	_	_
52	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
54	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	52	acl	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	advcl	_	_
59	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
60	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
61	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
62	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	63	advmod	_	_
63	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	ccomp	_	_
64	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obj	_	_
66	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	67	mark	_	_
67	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	65	acl	_	_
68	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	70	nmod:poss	_	_
69	considerate	considerate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	amod	_	_
70	entertainer	entertainer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
72	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	65	acl:relcl	_	_
73	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	75	nsubj	_	_
74	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	75	aux	_	_
75	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	72	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waken** | past | silence's extreme hunger | silence |  |  | hour |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | silence |  |  |  | still | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a good dinner |  |  |  | upon a little table and a good dinner | tree rules |
| 4 | **draw up** | past · perfect · passive |  | a little table and a good dinner |  |  |  | close *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | past · perfect | silence | nothing |  |  | for four hours |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 6 | **lose** | past | silence |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **begin** | gerund | no time *not said here* | silence's meal |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Eventuality |
| 8 | **hope** | gerund | silence *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 9 | **have** | might | silence | a opportunity |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient |
| 10 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | a opportunity *not said here* | silence's considerate entertainer |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entertainer=Theme |
| 11 | **is a** | infinitive | a opportunity *not said here* | whoever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **hunger** |  | silence |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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