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title: And when at last she did begin to dream of her beloved Prince she wa… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when at last she did begin to dream of her beloved Prince she was grieved to see him stretched upon a grassy bank, sad and weary, and hardly like himself. Who acts: Beauty. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 25

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And when at last she did begin to dream of her beloved Prince she was grieved to see him stretched upon a grassy bank, sad and weary, and hardly like himself.

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**Who acts:** Beauty · **What happens:** begin, dream, grieve, see, stretch · **To what, where:** last, Beauty, Prince

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty), 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:pg503:16:25
# text = And when at last she did begin to dream of her beloved Prince she was grieved to see him stretched upon a grassy bank, sad and weary, and hardly like himself.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	dream	dream	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past · do-support | Beauty |  |  | last |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **dream** | to-infinitive | Beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Beauty's beloved Prince | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grieve** | past · passive |  | Beauty |  |  |  | like Prince | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 5 | **stretch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | upon a grassy bank | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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