The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 8

Indeed, the daughters at first hoped that their friends, who had been so numerous while they were rich, would insist on their staying in their houses now they no longer possessed one.

Who acts: daughters, friends · What happens: hope, be, insist, stay, possess · To what, where: houses, one · 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 (daughters, friends), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 hoped	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 daughters	det
4	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hoped	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 hoped	obl
7	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 insist	mark
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friends	nmod:poss
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 insist	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 numerous	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 numerous	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 numerous	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 numerous	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 numerous	advmod
16	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 friends	parataxis
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 rich	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rich	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rich	cop
20	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 numerous	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 friends	punct
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 insist	aux
23	insist	insist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hoped	ccomp
24	on	on	SCONJ	_	26 staying	mark
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 staying	nsubj
26	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 insist	advcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 houses	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 houses	nmod:poss
29	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 staying	obl
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 possessed	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 possessed	nsubj
32	no	no	ADV	_	33 longer	advmod
33	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 possessed	advmod
34	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 staying	advcl
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 possessed	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hoped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past	the daughters				indeed property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	is	past · perfect	daughters's friends				numerous property	tree rules
3	is	past	friends = friend				rich property	tree rules
4	insist speech: other	would	daughters's friends					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	stay	gerund	friends = friend		daughters's houses			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
6	possess	past	friends = friend	one		now	long property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=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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