--- title: As soon as Beauty was alone she hastened to fill the boxes with all… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as Beauty was alone she hastened to fill the boxes with all the rare and precious things she saw about her, and only when she was tired of heaping things into them did they seem to be full. Who acts: Beauty, boxes. 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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 (Beauty, boxes), 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:pg503:16:23 # text = As soon as Beauty was alone she hastened to fill the boxes with all the rare and precious things she saw about her, and only when she was tired of heaping things into them did they seem to be full. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 Beauty Beauty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 alone alone ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hastened hasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 when when SCONJ WRB _ 30 mark _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advcl _ _ 31 of of SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 heaping heap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 33 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 36 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 parataxis _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 41 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | Beauty | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hasten** | past | Beauty | | | | | alone *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **fill** | to-infinitive | Beauty *not said here* | the boxes | | | | with all rare things | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent box=Patient with thing=Instrument | | 4 | **see** | past | Beauty | all rare things *not said here* | | | | about thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | past | Beauty | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **heap** | gerund | Beauty *not said here* | things | | | | into boxes *= box* | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | past | Beauty *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **seem** | present | boxes *= box* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **is** | to-infinitive | boxes *= box* *not said here* | | | | | full *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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/24/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/)