The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 13

She had been as sad as anyone when misfortune overtook her father, but, soon recovering her natural gaiety, she set to work to make the best of things, to amuse her father and brothers as well as she could, and to try to persuade her sisters to join her in dancing and singing.

Who acts: youngest, misfortune, sisters · What happens: be, overtake, recover, set, work, make · To what, where: father, natural gaiety, best things, sisters, youngest, dancing

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, misfortune, sisters), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 sad	cop
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 sad	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 overtook	advmod
9	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 overtook	nsubj
10	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anyone	acl:relcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 overtook	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 recovering	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 recovering	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 recovering	punct
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 recovering	advmod
17	recovering	recover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sad	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 gaiety	nmod:poss
19	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gaiety	amod
20	gaiety	gaiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 recovering	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 set	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 set	nsubj
23	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 work	mark
25	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 set	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 make	mark
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 work	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 things	det
29	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 things	amod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 things	case
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 make	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 amuse	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 amuse	mark
34	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 make	conj
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 amuse	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 brothers	cc
38	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 father	conj
39	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	43 could	cc
40	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 as	fixed
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 could	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 could	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 amuse	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 try	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 try	cc
46	to	to	PART	_	47 try	mark
47	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	parataxis
48	to	to	PART	_	49 persuade	mark
49	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 try	xcomp
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 sisters	nmod:poss
51	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 persuade	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 join	mark
53	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 persuade	xcomp
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 join	obj
55	in	in	ADP	_	56 dancing	case
56	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 join	obl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 singing	cc
58	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 join	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	youngest = young			as anyone; sad property	tree rules
2	overtake	past	misfortune	youngest's father			tree rules
3	recover	gerund	youngest = young not said here	youngest's natural gaiety		soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gaiety=Theme
4	set	past	youngest = young				tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	youngest = young not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	to-infinitive	youngest = young not said here	the best things			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product
7	amuse	to-infinitive	youngest = young not said here	youngest's father and brothers			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer
8	try	to-infinitive					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	persuade not said to happen	to-infinitive		youngest's sisters			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Patient clause=Result
10	join	to-infinitive	youngest's sisters not said here	youngest = young	dancing		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
11	sing speech: express	gerund	youngest's sisters not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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.

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