The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 13
But, in spite of her anxiety, she could not help admiring all the wonderful things she saw.
Who acts: spite · What happens: not help, admire, see, spite · To what, where: wonderful things, anxiety
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 (spite), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 help | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spite | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 spite | case |
| 4 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 help | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 anxiety | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 anxiety | nmod:poss |
| 7 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spite | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spite | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 help | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 help | advmod |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | admiring | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 help | xcomp |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 things | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 things | det |
| 16 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 things | amod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 admiring | obj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 things | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | could | spite of spite's anxiety | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | admire not said to happen | gerund | spite of spite's anxiety not said here | all wonderful things | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | past | spite | all wonderful things not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | spite | spite's anxiety | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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