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title: Then, after a hasty breakfast, he went to gather Beauty’s rose, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, after a hasty breakfast, he went to gather Beauty’s rose, and mounted his horse, which carried him off so swiftly that in an instant he had lost sight of the palace, and he was still wrapped in gloomy thoughts when it stopped before the door of the cottage. Who acts: sun, horse, rose. A senten
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 91

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Then, after a hasty breakfast, he went to gather Beauty’s rose, and mounted his horse, which carried him off so swiftly that in an instant he had lost sight of the palace, and he was still wrapped in gloomy thoughts when it stopped before the door of the cottage.

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**Who acts:** sun, horse, rose · **What happens:** go, gather, mount, carry off, lose, wrap · **To what, where:** rose, horse, sun, sight, instant, gloomy thoughts

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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 (sun, horse, rose), 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:pg503:14:91
# text = Then, after a hasty breakfast, he went to gather Beauty’s rose, and mounted his horse, which carried him off so swiftly that in an instant he had lost sight of the palace, and he was still wrapped in gloomy thoughts when it stopped before the door of the cottage.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
34	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
42	still	still	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
50	before	before	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | sun |  |  |  | after a hasty breakfast; then |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **gather** | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* | Beauty's rose |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Theme |
| 3 | **mount** | past | sun *not said here* | sun's horse |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 4 | **carry off** | past | sun's horse | sun |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | past · perfect | sun | sight of the palace |  | a instant |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality |
| 6 | **wrap** | past · passive |  | sun |  | gloomy thoughts | still |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in thought=Destination |
| 7 | **stop** | past | rose |  |  |  | before the door of the cottage |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 8 | **sight** |  |  | the palace |  |  |  |  | nom sight «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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