The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 54
This is the way you show your gratitude, by stealing my flowers!
Who acts: This, you · What happens: be, show, steal · To what, where: way, gratitude, flowers
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, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 way | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 show | nsubj |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stealing | punct |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 stealing | mark |
| 11 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 show | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stealing | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | present | you | your gratitude | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | steal | gerund | you not said here | my flowers | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=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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