--- title: There were splendid dresses fit for a queen, with all the ornaments… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: There were splendid dresses fit for a queen, with all the ornaments that were to be worn with them; and when Beauty opened the cupboards she was quite dazzled by the gorgeous jewels that lay in heaps upon every shelf. Who acts: splendid dresses, Beauty, gorgeous jewels. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/36/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/) / 36 # The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 36 There were splendid dresses fit for a queen, with all the ornaments that were to be worn with them; and when Beauty opened the cupboards she was quite dazzled by the gorgeous jewels that lay in heaps upon every shelf. **Who acts:** splendid dresses, Beauty, gorgeous jewels · **What happens:** be, wear, open, dazzle, lay · **To what, where:** cupboards, Beauty, heaps 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 (splendid dresses, Beauty, gorgeous jewels), 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:pg503:15:36 # text = There were splendid dresses fit for a queen, with all the ornaments that were to be worn with them; and when Beauty opened the cupboards she was quite dazzled by the gorgeous jewels that lay in heaps upon every shelf. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 dresses dress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 13 det:predet _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 ornaments ornament NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 Beauty Beauty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 cupboards cupboard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 30 quite quite ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 dazzled dazzle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 gorgeous gorgeous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 jewels jewel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 40 upon upon ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 shelf shelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | splendid dresses | | | there | | for a queen; with all ornaments; fit *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **wear** | to-infinitive · passive | splendid dresses *not said here* | | | | | with dresses *= dress* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative» | | 3 | **open** | past | Beauty | the cupboards | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cupboard=Theme | | 4 | **dazzle** | past · passive | the gorgeous jewels | Beauty | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | | 5 | **lay** | present | the gorgeous jewels | | | heaps | | upon every shelf | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in heap=Destination | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/37/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/)