The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 81

But he was too terrified to eat, and only tasted a few of the dishes, for fear the Beast should be angry if he did not obey his orders.

Who acts: supper, Beast · What happens: be, eat, taste, not obey, order · To what, where: few, orders

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 (supper, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 terrified	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 terrified	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terrified	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 terrified	advmod
5	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 terrified	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tasted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tasted	cc
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 tasted	advmod
11	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terrified	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 few	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tasted	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 dishes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dishes	det
16	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 few	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 angry	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 fear	case
19	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 angry	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Beast	det
21	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 angry	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 angry	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 angry	cop
24	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tasted	conj
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 obey	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 obey	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 obey	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 obey	advmod
29	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 angry	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 orders	nmod:poss
31	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 obey	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	supper		terrified property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	supper not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	taste	past		a few of the dishes		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme few=Attribute
4	is	should	the Beast		for fear; angry property	tree rules
5	not obey a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	supper	supper's orders		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
6	order		supper			nom order «communication 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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