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title: Then she fell asleep instantly, and only woke up to hear the clock s… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she fell asleep instantly, and only woke up to hear the clock saying “Beauty, Beauty” twelve times in its musical voice, which told her at once that she was really in the palace once more. Who acts: Beauty, clock, musical voice. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 57

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Then she fell asleep instantly, and only woke up to hear the clock saying “Beauty, Beauty” twelve times in its musical voice, which told her at once that she was really in the palace once more.

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**Who acts:** Beauty, clock, musical voice · **What happens:** fall, wake up, hear, say, tell, be · **To what, where:** clock, Beauty, palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, clock, musical voice), 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:pg503:16:57
# text = Then she fell asleep instantly, and only woke up to hear the clock saying “Beauty, Beauty” twelve times in its musical voice, which told her at once that she was really in the palace once more.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
21	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	obl	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	really	really	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	ccomp	_	_
40	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	41	advmod	_	_
41	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Beauty |  |  |  | then | asleep, instantly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wake up** | past | Beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | to-infinitive | Beauty *not said here* | the clock |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer clock=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the clock *not said here* | Beauty and Beauty |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent beauty=Topic |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | clock's musical voice |  | Beauty |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | past | Beauty |  |  | the palace |  |  | 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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