The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 23
But this only vexed her sisters, who fancied she was blaming them for having asked for such costly things.
Who acts: this, sisters, Beauty · What happens: vex, fancy, blame, have, ask · To what, where: sisters
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 (this, sisters, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 vexed | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 vexed | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 vexed | advmod |
| 4 | vexed | vex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vexed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fancied | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 fancied | nsubj |
| 9 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sisters | acl:relcl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 blaming | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 blaming | aux |
| 12 | blaming | blame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fancied | ccomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 blaming | obj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 having | mark |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 blaming | advcl |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 having | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 things | case |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 things | amod |
| 19 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 things | amod |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 asked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past | this | Beauty's sisters | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sister=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | fancy | past | Beauty's sisters | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | blame | past · progressive | Beauty | sisters = sister | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | Beauty not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | participle | Beauty not said here | for such costly things | 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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