The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 93
He hid the truth from them at first, only saying sadly to Beauty as he gave her the rose:
Who acts: sun · What happens: hide, say, give · To what, where: truth, Beauty, rose · 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 (sun), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hid | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 first | case |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 hid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 saying | advmod |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hid | advcl |
| 12 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 11 saying | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Beauty | case |
| 14 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saying | obl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 gave | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saying | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rose | det |
| 20 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | sun | the truth | from daughters = daughter | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent truth=Patient from they=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | sun not said here | Beauty | sadly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to beauty=Recipient | |||
| 3 | give | past | sun | the rose | Beauty | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient rose=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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