--- title: But then, looking at him again, she fancied he still breathed, and,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But then, looking at him again, she fancied he still breathed, and, hastily fetching some water from the nearest fountain, she sprinkled it over his face, and, to her great delight, he began to revive. Who acts: Beauty, Beast. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/65/) [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/) / 65 # The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 65 But then, looking at him again, she fancied he still breathed, and, hastily fetching some water from the nearest fountain, she sprinkled it over his face, and, to her great delight, he began to revive. **Who acts:** Beauty, Beast · **What happens:** look, fancy, breathe, fetch, sprinkle, begin · **To what, where:** water, nearest fountain, face 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:pg503:16:65 # text = But then, looking at him again, she fancied he still breathed, and, hastily fetching some water from the nearest fountain, she sprinkled it over his face, and, to her great delight, he began to revive. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 fancied fancy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 breathed breathe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 fetching fetch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 advcl _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 24 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 sprinkled sprinkle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 revive revive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | gerund | Beauty *not said here* | | | | then; again | at Beast | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | | 2 | **fancy** | past | Beauty | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **breathe** | past | Beast | | | | still | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fetch** | gerund | Beauty *not said here* | some water | | the nearest fountain | | hastily *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from fountain=Source | | 5 | **sprinkle** | past | Beauty | water | | Beast's face | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over face=Destination | | 6 | **begin** | past | Beast | | | | | to Beauty's great delight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **revive** | to-infinitive | Beast *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **delight** | | Beauty | | | | | | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/66/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/)