The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 2
“I have, indeed, caused this misfortune, but I assure you I did it innocently.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, cause, assure, do · To what, where: misfortune, you · 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 (I), 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 caused | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 caused | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 7 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 misfortune | det |
| 9 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caused | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 assure | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 assure | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 assure | nsubj |
| 13 | assure | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 caused | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 assure | iobj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 assure | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 did | obj |
| 18 | innocently | innocently | ADV | _ | 16 did | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | I | indeed property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cause in a quote | past | this misfortune | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition misfortune=Patient | |||||
| 3 | assure in a quote | present | I | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | past | I | misfortune | innocently property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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