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title: But the second time she went into the room, happening to be tired, s… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the second time she went into the room, happening to be tired, she sat down in one of the chairs, when instantly the curtain was rolled aside, and a most amusing pantomime was acted before her; there were dances, and colored lights, and music, and pretty dresses, and it was all so gay that Beaut
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 106

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But the second time she went into the room, happening to be tired, she sat down in one of the chairs, when instantly the curtain was rolled aside, and a most amusing pantomime was acted before her; there were dances, and colored lights, and music, and pretty dresses, and it was all so gay that Beauty was in ecstacies.

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**Who acts:** Beauty, dances, curtain · **What happens:** go, happen, be, sit down, roll, act · **To what, where:** colored lights, room, curtain, amusing pantomime, ecstacies

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty, dances, curtain), 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:pg503:15:106
# text = But the second time she went into the room, happening to be tired, she sat down in one of the chairs, when instantly the curtain was rolled aside, and a most amusing pantomime was acted before her; there were dances, and colored lights, and music, and pretty dresses, and it was all so gay that Beauty was in ecstacies.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
26	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
31	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	36	advmod	_	_
36	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	pantomime	pantomime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	acted	act	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
40	before	before	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	44	expl	_	_
44	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
45	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	amod	_	_
49	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
60	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
61	all	all	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
62	so	so	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
64	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	68	mark	_	_
65	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	68	nsubj	_	_
66	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	68	cop	_	_
67	in	in	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	ecstacies	ecstacy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Beauty | colored lights |  | the room | time | music *obl*; pretty dresses *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **happen** | gerund | Beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | Beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit down** | past | Beauty |  |  |  |  | in one of the chairs | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in one=Location |
| 5 | **roll** | past · passive |  | the curtain |  |  |  | aside, instantly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |
| 6 | **act** | past · passive |  | a amusing pantomime |  |  | before Beauty |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **be** | past | dances |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is** | past | curtain |  |  |  |  | all, gay *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **is** | past | Beauty |  |  | ecstacies |  |  | 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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