The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 19

Only the youngest daughter had any doubt but that they would soon again be as rich as they were before, or at least rich enough to live comfortably in some town where they would find amusement and gay companions once more.

Who acts: youngest daughter, daughters · What happens: have, be, live, find · To what, where: doubt, town, amusement

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 daughter, daughters), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 daughter	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 daughter	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 daughter	amod
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 doubt	det
7	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 rich	cc
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 rich	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rich	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 rich	aux
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 again	advmod
13	again	again	ADV	_	16 rich	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 rich	cop
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 rich	advmod
16	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	conj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 before	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 before	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 before	cop
20	before	before	ADV	_	16 rich	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rich	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 rich	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 least	case
24	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 rich	obl
25	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	parataxis
26	enough	enough	ADV	_	25 rich	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 live	mark
28	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 rich	advcl
29	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	28 live	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 town	case
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 town	det
32	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 live	obl
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 find	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 find	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 find	aux
36	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 town	acl:relcl
37	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 find	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 companions	cc
39	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 companions	amod
40	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 amusement	conj
41	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	42 more	advmod
42	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 find	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the youngest daughter	any doubt				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient
2	is	would	daughters = daughter			again	rich property	tree rules
3	is	past	daughters = daughter				before property	tree rules
4	live	to-infinitive	the youngest daughter not said here		some town		comfortably property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
5	find	would	daughters = daughter	amusement and gay companions				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amusement=Topic

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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