The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 21
Her father, noticing her silence, said: “And what shall I bring for you, Beauty?”
Who acts: father, Beauty · What happens: notice, say, bring, silence · To what, where: silence, Beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father, Beauty), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticing | punct |
| 4 | noticing | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 father | acl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 silence | nmod:poss |
| 6 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noticing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bring | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 bring | obj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bring | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | nsubj |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Beauty | punct |
| 19 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | gerund | Beauty's father not said here | Beauty's silence | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer silence=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Beauty's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | shall | Beauty's father = father | Beauty | for you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme beauty=Destination | |||
| 4 | silence | Beauty | nom silence «state transitive»: poss=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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