The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 59
“You are very ready with excuses and flattery,” he cried; “but that will not save you from the death you deserve.”
Who acts: You, anger, that · What happens: be, cry, not save, deserve · To what, where: you, death · 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 (You, anger, that), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 ready | advmod |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 excuses | case |
| 7 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ready | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flattery | cc |
| 9 | flattery | flattery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 excuses | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 save | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 save | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 save | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 save | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 save | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 save | advmod |
| 20 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | ccomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 save | iobj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 death | det |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 save | obl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 deserve | nsubj |
| 26 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 death | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 save | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | with excuses and flattery; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | anger | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not save in a quote | future | that | you | the death | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme from death=Source | |||
| 4 | deserve in a quote | present | you | the death not said here | 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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