--- title: Tearing herself away from the portrait at last, she passed through i… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Tearing herself away from the portrait at last, she passed through into a room which contained every musical instrument under the sun, and here she amused herself for a long while in trying some of them, and singing until she was tired. Who acts: Beast, room. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beast, room), 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:pg503:15:75 # text = Tearing herself away from the portrait at last, she passed through into a room which contained every musical instrument under the sun, and here she amused herself for a long while in trying some of them, and singing until she was tired. 1 Tearing tear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 2 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 1 obj _ _ 3 away away ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 portrait portrait NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 through through ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 contained contain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 19 musical musical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 instrument instrument NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 amused amuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 29 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 in in SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 36 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 35 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 42 until until SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tear** | gerund | Beast *not said here* | Beast | | last | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location herself=Theme | | 2 | **pass through** | past | Beast | | | a room | | through *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **contain** | past | a room | every musical instrument | | the sun | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot instrument=Theme | | 4 | **amuse** | past | Beast | Beast | | here | while | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | | 5 | **try** | gerund | Beast *not said here* | some | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Eventuality | | 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Beast *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | past | Beast | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/76/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/)