The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 98

Then the girls were very angry with Beauty, and said it was all her fault, and that if she had asked for something sensible this would never have happened, and complained bitterly that they should have to suffer for her folly.

Who acts: girls, castle, Beauty, this · What happens: be, say, ask, not happen, complain, have · To what, where: fault · 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 (girls, castle, Beauty, this), 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	6 angry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girls	det
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 angry	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Beauty	case
8	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angry	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fault	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fault	cop
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 fault	det:predet
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fault	nmod:poss
16	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asked	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 asked	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 asked	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asked	aux
23	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 something	case
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 asked	obl
26	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 something	amod
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 happened	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 happened	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 happened	advmod
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 happened	aux
31	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 something	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 complained	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 complained	cc
34	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
35	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	34 complained	advmod
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 have	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 have	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 have	aux
39	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 complained	ccomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 suffer	mark
41	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 have	xcomp
42	for	for	ADP	_	44 folly	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 folly	nmod:poss
44	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 suffer	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the girls		then	with Beauty; angry property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	castle	Beauty's fault			tree rules
4	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Beauty			for something	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not happen	would · perfect	this				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	complain speech: other	past				bitterly property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	have	should	girls = girl				tree rules
8	suffer	to-infinitive	girls = girl not said here			for Beauty's folly	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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