The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 58
But the Beast’s anger was not lessened by this speech.
Who acts: speech, Beast · What happens: not lessen, anger · To what, where: anger
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 (speech, Beast), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 lessened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Beast | det |
| 3 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 anger | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Beast | case |
| 5 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lessened | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lessened | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 lessened | advmod |
| 8 | lessened | lessen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 speech | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 speech | det |
| 11 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lessened | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lessened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lessen | past · passive | this speech | the Beast's anger | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | anger | the Beast | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/58/