The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 25

“Well, dear father,” she said, “as you insist upon it, I beg that you will bring me a rose.

Who acts: dear father, you · What happens: say, insist, beg, bring · To what, where: rose, dear father · 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 (dear father, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 father	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 father	amod
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beg	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 beg	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 insist	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 insist	nsubj
14	insist	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 beg	advcl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 insist	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 insist	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 beg	nsubj
19	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 bring	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 bring	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bring	aux
23	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 beg	advcl
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 bring	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rose	det
26	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	dear father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	insist speech: other in a quote	present	you			upon age	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	beg speech: request in a quote	present	dear father = father				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	bring in a quote	future	you	a rose	dear father = father		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination rose=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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