The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 76

He promised to return at the time appointed, and then, anxious to escape from the presence of the Beast, he asked permission to set off at once.

Who acts: merchant, permission · What happens: promise, return, appoint, escape, ask, set off · To what, where: presence, permission

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, permission), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 return	mark
4	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 return	obl
8	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 return	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 anxious	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 anxious	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 anxious	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 anxious	punct
13	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 promised	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 escape	mark
15	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 anxious	xcomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 presence	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 presence	det
18	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 escape	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Beast	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Beast	det
21	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 presence	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 asked	nsubj
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	parataxis
25	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 asked	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 set	mark
27	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 asked	xcomp
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 set	compound:prt
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 set	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	merchant				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	merchant not said here			time	tree rules
3	appoint	participle	merchant not said here				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	escape	to-infinitive	merchant not said here		the presence of the Beast		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from presence=Initial_Location
5	ask speech: ask	past	merchant	permission			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic
6	set off not said to happen	to-infinitive	permission not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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