The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 22
The merchant was too terrified to reply, but Beauty answered sweetly: “Good-evening, Beast.”
Who acts: merchant, Beauty · What happens: be, reply, answer
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 (merchant, Beauty), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 terrified | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 terrified | advmod |
| 5 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 reply | mark |
| 7 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 terrified | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 answered | cc |
| 10 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | parataxis |
| 12 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 11 answered | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 evening | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 evening | punct |
| 15 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 evening | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Good | punct |
| 17 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 terrified | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Beast | punct |
| 19 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 evening | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 terrified | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the merchant | terrified property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Beauty | sweetly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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