The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 24

Her father, however, was pleased, but as he thought that at her age she certainly ought to like pretty presents, he told her to choose something.

Who acts: father, Beauty · What happens: be, think, like, tell, choose · To what, where: presents, age, Beauty, something · 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	7 pleased	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 father	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	2 father	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 father	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pleased	cop
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 thought	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pleased	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 like	mark
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 age	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 age	nmod:poss
16	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 like	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 like	nsubj
18	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	21 like	advmod
19	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 like	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 like	mark
21	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thought	ccomp
22	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	21 like	advmod
23	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 like	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pleased	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 choose	mark
29	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 told	xcomp
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 choose	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Beauty's father				pleased property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	father					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	like	ought	Beauty	presents		at Beauty's age	certainly, pretty property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot present=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	father		Beauty			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	choose not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	something				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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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