The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 108

Every evening after supper the Beast came to see her, and always before saying good-night asked her in his terrible voice:

Who acts: Beast, good night · What happens: come, see, say, ask · To what, where: Beast, terrible voice · 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: who acts (Beast, good night), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 supper	case
4	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 evening	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Beast	det
6	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saying	cc
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 saying	advmod
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 saying	mark
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 night	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asked	nsubj
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	ccomp
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	iobj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 voice	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 voice	nmod:poss
23	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 voice	amod
24	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asked	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Beast				evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	the Beast not said here	Beast					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the Beast not said here					always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	ask speech: ask	past	good night		Beast	entertainment's terrible voice			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=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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