--- title: Quite glad to have found him, she ran up and stroked his head, but,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Quite glad to have found him, she ran up and stroked his head, but, to her horror, he did not move or open his eyes. Who acts: Beauty, Beast. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/63/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Beauty and the Beast, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/) / 63 # The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 63 Quite glad to have found him, she ran up and stroked his head, but, to her horror, he did not move or open his eyes. **Who acts:** Beauty, Beast · **What happens:** find, run up, stroke, not move, open · **To what, where:** Beast, head, horror, eyes 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, Beast), 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:pg503:16:63 # text = Quite glad to have found him, she ran up and stroked his head, but, to her horror, he did not move or open his eyes. 1 Quite quite ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 4 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux _ _ 5 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 stroked stroke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | to-infinitive · perfect | | Beast | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 2 | **run up** | past | Beauty | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stroke** | past | Beauty *not said here* | Beast's head | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer | | 4 | **not** **move** | past · do-support | Beast | | | Beauty's horror | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to horror=Trajectory | | 5 | **open** | infinitive | Beast *not said here* | Beast's eyes | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/64/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/)