The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 84
Then the Beast warned him to remember their agreement, and to prepare his daughter exactly for what she had to expect.
Who acts: Beast, things · What happens: warn, remember, prepare, have, expect, agree · To what, where: supper, agreement, daughter
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 (Beast, things), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 warned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Beast | det |
| 3 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 warned | nsubj |
| 4 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 warned | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 remember | mark |
| 7 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 warned | xcomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 agreement | nmod:poss |
| 9 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remember | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 prepare | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 prepare | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 prepare | mark |
| 13 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 warned | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prepare | obj |
| 16 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 13 prepare | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 prepare | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 expect | mark |
| 22 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | past | the Beast | supper | then | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | remember | to-infinitive | the Beast not said here | things's agreement | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent agreement=Theme | ||||
| 3 | prepare | to-infinitive | the Beast not said here | supper's daughter | exactly property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent daughter=Product for what=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | have | past | Beast | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | expect | to-infinitive | Beast not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | agree | things = thing | nom agreement «communication intransitive»: 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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