The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 61

And in despair he began to tell the Beast all his misfortunes, and the reason of his journey, not forgetting to mention Beauty’s request.

Who acts: danger, Beauty · What happens: begin, tell, not forget, mention, journey, request · To what, where: reason, despair, misfortunes, Beast, request · 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 (danger, Beauty), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 began	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 despair	case
3	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Beast	det
9	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 misfortunes	det:predet
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 misfortunes	nmod:poss
12	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tell	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reason	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 reason	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reason	det
16	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 journey	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 journey	nmod:poss
19	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reason	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 forgetting	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 forgetting	advmod
22	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 began	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 mention	mark
24	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 forgetting	xcomp
25	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 request	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Beauty	case
27	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mention	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	begin	past	danger	the reason of danger's journey		despair	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	danger not said here	danger's misfortunes	the Beast		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent beast=Recipient misfortune=Topic
3	not forget	gerund	danger not said here				tree rules
4	mention speech: other	to-infinitive	danger not said here	Beauty's request			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent request=Topic
5	journey		danger				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	request		Beauty				nom request «communication transitive»: 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.

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