The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 42

He began to wonder what he should do, and to amuse himself by pretending that all the treasures he saw were his own, and considering how he would divide them among his children.

Who acts: sign, treasures · What happens: begin, wonder, do, amuse, pretend, see · To what, where: sign, treasures · 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 (sign, treasures), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wonder	mark
4	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wonder	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 amuse	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 amuse	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 amuse	mark
12	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wonder	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 amuse	obj
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 pretending	mark
15	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 amuse	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 own	mark
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 treasures	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 treasures	det
19	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 own	nsubj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 treasures	acl:relcl
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 own	cop
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 own	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pretending	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 considering	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 considering	cc
27	considering	consider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 began	advcl
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 divide	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 divide	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 divide	aux
31	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 considering	ccomp
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 divide	obj
33	among	among	ADP	_	35 children	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 children	nmod:poss
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 divide	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	sign			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	sign not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	should	sign			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	amuse	to-infinitive	sign not said here	sign		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
5	pretend	gerund	sign not said here			tree rules
6	see	past	sign	all treasures not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treasure=Stimulus
7	is	past	all treasures		own property	tree rules
8	consider	gerund	sign not said here			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	divide	would	sign	treasures = treasure	among sign's children	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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