The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 1

Poor Beauty, much distressed, said to them:

What happens: distress, say · To what, where: Poor Beauty, them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Beauty	amod
2	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 distressed	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 distressed	punct
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 distressed	advmod
5	distressed	distress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 distressed	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 distressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	distress	past		Poor Beauty					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past			them = they				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient

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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