The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 60
“Alas!” thought the merchant, “if my daughter could only know what danger her rose has brought me into!”
Who acts: merchant, daughter · What happens: think, know, bring · To what, where: danger · 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, daughter), 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 thought | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 thought | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 merchant | det |
| 7 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 brought | obj |
| 17 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 rose | nmod:poss |
| 19 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 brought | aux |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 know | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 brought | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 brought | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the merchant | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | my daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | present · perfect · passive | danger | 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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