The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 94
“Here is what you asked me to bring you; you little know what it has cost.”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, ask, bring, know, cost · To what, where: sun, you, 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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bring | mark |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asked | xcomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | parataxis |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 cost | obj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cost | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cost | aux |
| 18 | cost | cost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 know | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | you | sun | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | cost in a quote | present · perfect · passive | rose | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary what=Value |
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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