The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 96

The girls lamented loudly over their lost hopes, and the sons declared that their father should not return to this terrible castle, and began to make plans for killing the Beast if it should come to fetch him.

Who acts: girls, father, castle · What happens: lament, lose, declare, not return, begin, make · To what, where: girls, lost hopes, plans, Beast, father

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 (girls, father, castle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girls	det
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 declared	nsubj
3	lamented	lament	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 girls	acl
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 lamented	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	8 hopes	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hopes	nmod:poss
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hopes	amod
8	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lamented	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 declared	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 declared	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sons	det
12	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 declared	nsubj
13	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 return	mark
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 return	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 return	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 return	advmod
19	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 declared	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 castle	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 castle	det
22	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 castle	amod
23	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 return	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 declared	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 make	mark
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 make	obj
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 killing	mark
31	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 make	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Beast	det
33	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 killing	obj
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 come	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 come	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 make	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 fetch	mark
39	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 come	xcomp
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 fetch	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lament	participle		the girls not said here	girls's lost hopes	loudly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	declare speech: other	past	the girls				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	not return	should	girls's father			to this terrible castle result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result
5	begin	past	the girls not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	make	to-infinitive	the girls not said here	plans			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product
7	kill	gerund	the girls not said here	the Beast			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme
8	come a condition, not said to happen	should	castle				tree rules
9	fetch	to-infinitive	castle not said here	father			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
10	hope		girls = girl				nom hope «feeling 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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