The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 67

“No excuse would be necessary,” answered the Beast.

Who acts: excuse, Beast · What happens: be, answer · 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 (excuse, Beast), 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	_	6 necessary	punct
2	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 excuse	det
3	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 necessary	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 necessary	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 necessary	cop
6	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 necessary	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 necessary	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 necessary	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Beast	det
11	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 necessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	would	no excuse					necessary property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the Beast						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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