--- title: She rang the bell, and scarcely had she touched it before she found… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She rang the bell, and scarcely had she touched it before she found herself in a chamber where a bed stood ready made for her, which was as pretty as anyone could wish to sleep in. Who acts: door, bed, anyone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, bed, anyone), 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:pg503:4:21 # text = She rang the bell, and scarcely had she touched it before she found herself in a chamber where a bed stood ready made for her, which was as pretty as anyone could wish to sleep in. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 scarcely scarcely ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 before before SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 15 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 xcomp _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 as as ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 35 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 in in ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ring** | past | door | the bell | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | | 2 | **touch** | past | door | bell | | | | scarcely *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | | 3 | **find** | past | door | door | | a chamber | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | | 4 | **stand** | past | a bed | | | | | ready *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | participle | a bed *not said here* | | | | | for door | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for she=Beneficiary | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | pretty *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **wish** | could | anyone | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **sleep in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | anyone *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/22/) - ↑ back to [East of the Sun and West of the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/)