The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 53
Was it not enough that I allowed you to be in my palace and was kind to you?
Who acts: rose, I · What happens: not be, allow, be · To what, where: you, palace
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 (rose, I), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enough | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 enough | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 enough | advmod |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 allowed | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 allowed | nsubj |
| 7 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enough | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 allowed | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 palace | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 palace | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 palace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 allowed | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kind | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 kind | cop |
| 16 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 allowed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 kind | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | rose | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | allow | past | I | you | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | my palace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | I not said here | you | kind property | tree rules |
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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