The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 12

Roughly clothed, and living in the simplest way, the girls regretted unceasingly the luxuries and amusements of their former life; only the youngest tried to be brave and cheerful.

Who acts: youngest, girls · What happens: clothe, live, regret, try, be · To what, where: simplest way, luxuries

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, girls), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roughly	roughly	ADV	_	2 clothed	advmod
2	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 tried	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 living	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 living	cc
5	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 clothed	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	simplest	simple	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 living	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 regretted	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girls	det
12	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 regretted	nsubj
13	regretted	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 way	acl:relcl
14	unceasingly	unceasingly	ADV	_	16 luxuries	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 luxuries	det
16	luxuries	luxury	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 regretted	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 amusements	cc
18	amusements	amusement	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 luxuries	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 life	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
21	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 life	amod
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 luxuries	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 tried	punct
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 youngest	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 youngest	det
26	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 tried	nsubj
27	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	to	to	PART	_	30 brave	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 brave	cop
30	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tried	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cheerful	cc
32	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 brave	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clothe	participle	the youngest not said here			roughly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	live	gerund	the youngest not said here		the simplest way		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location
3	regret	past	the girls	the luxuries of girls's former life and amusements			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer luxury=Stimulus
4	try	past	the youngest				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youngest not said here			brave property	tree rules
6	be		the youngest not said here				tree rules

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.

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