--- title: But no one appeared, and even after another long sleep, from which h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But no one appeared, and even after another long sleep, from which he awoke completely refreshed, there was no sign of anybody, though a fresh meal of dainty cakes and fruit was prepared upon the little table at his elbow. Who acts: one, silence, sign. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Beauty and the Beast, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/) / 39 # The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 39 But no one appeared, and even after another long sleep, from which he awoke completely refreshed, there was no sign of anybody, though a fresh meal of dainty cakes and fruit was prepared upon the little table at his elbow. **Who acts:** one, silence, sign · **What happens:** appear, awake, refresh, be, prepare, sign · **To what, where:** long sleep, fresh meal, anybody 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 (one, silence, sign), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:14:39 # text = But no one appeared, and even after another long sleep, from which he awoke completely refreshed, there was no sign of anybody, though a fresh meal of dainty cakes and fruit was prepared upon the little table at his elbow. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 3 det _ _ 3 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 completely completely ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 refreshed refresh VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 anybody anybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 though though SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 dainty dainty NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 38 upon upon ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 elbow elbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | no one | | | | after another long sleep | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **awake** | past | silence | | | another long sleep | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **refresh** | participle | silence *not said here* | | | | | completely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **be** | past | no sign of anybody | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **prepare** | past · passive | | a fresh meal of dainty cakes and fruit | | | | upon the little table at silence's elbow | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **sign** | | | anybody | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/40/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/)