The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 12

“The Beast must be very hungry,” said Beauty, trying to laugh, “if he makes all this rejoicing over the arrival of his prey.”

Who acts: Beast, Beauty, music, prey · What happens: be, say, try, laugh, make, arrive · To what, where: rejoicing, arrival · 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, Beauty, music, prey), 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	_	7 hungry	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Beast	det
3	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hungry	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hungry	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 hungry	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 hungry	advmod
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hungry	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 hungry	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trying	punct
13	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 laugh	mark
15	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 trying	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 makes	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 makes	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 makes	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 makes	nsubj
20	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 rejoicing	det:predet
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 rejoicing	det
23	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 makes	obj
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 arrival	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 arrival	det
26	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 makes	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 prey	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 prey	nmod:poss
29	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 arrival	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 makes	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	must	the Beast			hungry property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Beauty				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	gerund	Beauty not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	laugh not said to happen	to-infinitive	Beauty not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	music	all rejoicing	the arrival of music's prey		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rejoicing=Product
6	arrive in a quote		music's prey				nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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