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title: But when it did come and no Beast appeared she was really frightened… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when it did come and no Beast appeared she was really frightened; so, after listening and waiting for a long time, she ran down into the garden to search for him. Who acts: suppertime, Beast, Beauty. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, with its depen
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 60

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But when it did come and no Beast appeared she was really frightened; so, after listening and waiting for a long time, she ran down into the garden to search for him.

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**Who acts:** suppertime, Beast, Beauty · **What happens:** come, appear, frighten, listen, wait, run down · **To what, where:** Beauty, garden

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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 (suppertime, Beast, 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:pg503:16:60
# text = But when it did come and no Beast appeared she was really frightened; so, after listening and waiting for a long time, she ran down into the garden to search for him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	really	really	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · do-support | suppertime |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | past | no Beast |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | Beauty |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **listen** | gerund | Beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund | Beauty *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **run down** | past | Beauty |  |  |  |  | into the garden *result*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result |
| 7 | **search** | to-infinitive | Beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Beast | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme |

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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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