The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 83

As he could do nothing to escape his visit, the only thing that remained was to seem as little afraid as possible; so when the Beast appeared and asked roughly if he had supped well, the merchant answered humbly that he had, thanks to his host’s kindness.

Who acts: supper, only thing, Beast, merchant · What happens: do, escape, remain, be, appear, ask · To what, where: nothing, visit, thanks

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, only thing, Beast, merchant), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 do	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 seem	advcl
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 do	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 escape	mark
7	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	acl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 visit	nmod:poss
9	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 escape	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seem	nsubj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 remained	nsubj
15	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thing	acl:relcl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seem	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 seem	mark
18	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 afraid	mark
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 afraid	amod
21	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seem	xcomp
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 possible	mark
23	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 afraid	ccomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 appeared	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	29 appeared	advmod
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 appeared	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Beast	det
28	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 appeared	nsubj
29	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seem	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 asked	cc
31	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 appeared	conj
32	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	31 asked	advmod
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 supped	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 supped	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 supped	aux
36	supped	sup	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 asked	ccomp
37	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 supped	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 answered	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 merchant	det
40	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 answered	nsubj
41	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 appeared	parataxis
42	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	41 answered	advmod
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 had	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 answered	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 thanks	punct
47	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 had	obj
48	to	to	ADP	_	52 kindness	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 host	nmod:poss
50	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 kindness	nmod:poss
51	’s	's	PART	_	50 host	case
52	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 thanks	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	could	supper	nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	escape	to-infinitive	supper not said here	supper's visit		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme visit=Initial_Location
3	remain	past	the only thing			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the only thing		afraid, seem property	tree rules
5	appear	past	the Beast			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	the Beast not said here		roughly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	sup a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	supper		well property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	answer speech: assert	past	the merchant		humbly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	have	past	supper	thanks	to supper's host's kindness	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Patient
10	visit		supper			nom visit «act 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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