The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 56

The merchant, terrified by these furious words, dropped the fatal rose, and, throwing himself on his knees, cried: “Pardon me, noble sir.

Who acts: merchant, throwing · What happens: drop, throw, cry, pardon · To what, where: fatal rose, merchant, knees, throwing · 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 (merchant, throwing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dropped	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 terrified	punct
4	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 merchant	amod
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 words	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 words	det
7	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 terrified	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 merchant	punct
10	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rose	det
12	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rose	amod
13	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dropped	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cried	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 throwing	punct
17	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 cried	csubj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 throwing	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 knees	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 knees	nmod:poss
21	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 throwing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 throwing	punct
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dropped	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Pardon	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 Pardon	punct
26	Pardon	pardon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 cried	ccomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 Pardon	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sir	punct
29	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sir	amod
30	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Pardon	vocative
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop	past	the merchant	the fatal rose			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Theme
2	throw	gerund		merchant	merchant's knees		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on knee=Destination
3	cry speech: express	past	throwing				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pardon in a quote	infinitive		throwing		noble sir vocative	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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