The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 57

I am truly grateful to you for your hospitality, which was so magnificent that I could not imagine that you would be offended by my taking such a little thing as a rose.”

Who acts: I, hospitality, my · What happens: be, not imagine, offend, take · To what, where: you, little thing

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 (I, hospitality, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 grateful	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grateful	cop
3	truly	truly	ADV	_	4 grateful	advmod
4	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 grateful	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 hospitality	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hospitality	nmod:poss
9	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grateful	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 magnificent	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 magnificent	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 magnificent	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 magnificent	advmod
14	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hospitality	amod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 imagine	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 imagine	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 imagine	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 imagine	advmod
19	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 magnificent	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 offended	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 offended	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 offended	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 offended	aux:pass
24	offended	offend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 imagine	ccomp
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	27 taking	mark
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 taking	nsubj
27	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 offended	advcl
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	31 thing	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 thing	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 thing	amod
31	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taking	obj
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 rose	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 rose	det
34	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taking	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grateful	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 grateful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		you	for your hospitality; grateful, truly property	tree rules
2	is	past	your hospitality			magnificent property	tree rules
3	not imagine	could	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	offend	would · passive		you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	take	gerund	my	such little thing		as a rose	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme as rose=Attribute

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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