The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 64
The Beast considered for a moment, and then he said, in a less furious tone:
Who acts: Beast, danger · What happens: consider, say · To what, where: furious tone · 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 (Beast, danger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Beast | det |
| 2 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | nsubj |
| 3 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 said | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 considered | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tone | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tone | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tone | det |
| 15 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 furious | advmod |
| 16 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tone | amod |
| 17 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | the Beast | moment | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | danger | a furious tone | then | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner |
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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