The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 62

“A king’s ransom would hardly have procured all that my other daughters asked.” he said: “but I thought that I might at least take Beauty her rose.

Who acts: other daughters, danger, king · What happens: procure, ask, say, think, take, ransom · To what, where: ransom, that, Beauty, least · 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 (other daughters, danger, king), 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	_	9 procured	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ransom	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	ransom	ransom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 procured	nsubj:pass
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 procured	aux
7	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	9 procured	advmod
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 procured	aux
9	procured	procure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 said	ccomp
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 asked	det:predet
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 asked	obj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughters	nmod:poss
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 daughters	amod
14	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 procured	parataxis
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 procured	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 procured	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 thought	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 take	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 might	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 take	aux
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 least	case
29	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 take	obl
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thought	ccomp
31	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 rose	nmod:poss
33	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	procure in a quote	would · perfect · passive		a king's ransom		hardly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	my other daughters	that			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	danger				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	think speech: other in a quote	past	danger				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	take in a quote	might		Beauty	least		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument beauty=Theme rose=Destination
6	ransom in a quote		a king				nom ransom «possession 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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