The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 20
So they all loaded their father with commissions for jewels and dresses which it would have taken a fortune to buy; only Beauty, feeling sure that it was of no use, did not ask for anything.
Who acts: daughters, Beauty, fortune · What happens: load, dress, take, buy, feel, be · To what, where: father, fortune
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 (daughters, Beauty, fortune), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 loaded | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loaded | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 they | det |
| 4 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loaded | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 commissions | case |
| 8 | commissions | commission | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loaded | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 jewels | case |
| 10 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 commissions | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dresses | cc |
| 12 | dresses | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 loaded | conj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 taken | aux |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 dresses | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fortune | det |
| 19 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 buy | mark |
| 21 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fortune | acl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 Beauty | punct |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 Beauty | advmod |
| 24 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ask | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 feeling | punct |
| 26 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Beauty | acl |
| 27 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 feeling | xcomp |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 use | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 use | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 use | cop |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 use | case |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 use | det |
| 33 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sure | ccomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ask | punct |
| 35 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 ask | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 ask | advmod |
| 37 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 loaded | parataxis |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 anything | case |
| 39 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 37 ask | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | past | daughters = daughter | daughters's father | with commissions for jewels | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent father=Destination with commission=Theme | |||
| 2 | dress | present | daughters = daughter not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | would · perfect · passive | a fortune | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme fortune=Destination | |||||
| 4 | buy | to-infinitive | a fortune not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | feel | gerund | Beauty not said here | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is | past | fortune | of no use | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not ask speech: ask | past · do-support | Beauty | for anything | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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.
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