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title: Being naturally timid, the silence began to terrify him, and he reso… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Being naturally timid, the silence began to terrify him, and he resolved to search once more through all the rooms; but it was of no use. Who acts: silence, meal. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 40

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Being naturally timid, the silence began to terrify him, and he resolved to search once more through all the rooms; but it was of no use.

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**Who acts:** silence, meal · **What happens:** be, begin, terrify, resolve, search · **To what, where:** silence, rooms

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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 (silence, meal), 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:pg503:14:40
# text = Being naturally timid, the silence began to terrify him, and he resolved to search once more through all the rooms; but it was of no use.
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
2	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	terrify	terrify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | naturally, timid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the silence |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **terrify** | to-infinitive | the silence *not said here* | silence |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **resolve** | past | silence |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **search** | to-infinitive | silence *not said here* |  |  | all rooms |  | once *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through room=Location |
| 6 | **is** | past | meal |  |  |  |  | of no use | tree rules |

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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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