The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 9

But they soon found that they were left alone, and that their former friends even attributed their misfortunes to their own extravagance, and showed no intention of offering them any help.

Who acts: friends, former friends, intention · What happens: find, leave, attribute, show, offer · To what, where: friends, misfortunes, intention · 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 (friends, former friends, intention), 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	_	4 found	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 left	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux:pass
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 found	ccomp
9	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 left	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 showed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 showed	cc
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 attributed	mark
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friends	nmod:poss
14	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 friends	amod
15	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 attributed	nsubj
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 attributed	advmod
17	attributed	attribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 showed	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 misfortunes	nmod:poss
19	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 attributed	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 extravagance	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 extravagance	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 extravagance	amod
23	extravagance	extravagance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 attributed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 showed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 showed	cc
26	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 intention	det
28	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 showed	obj
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 offering	mark
30	offering	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 intention	acl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 offering	obj
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 help	det
33	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 offering	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	friends = friend		soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	leave	past · passive		friends = friend	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	attribute	past	friends's former friends	friends's misfortunes	to friends's own extravagance	tree rules
4	show	past	friends = friend not said here	no intention		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent intention=Recipient
5	offer	gerund	no intention not said here	friends = friend		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal help=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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