The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 24
“Will you be content to stay here when your father goes away?”
Who acts: you, father · What happens: be, stay, go away
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 (you, father), 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 | _ | 5 content | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 content | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 content | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 content | cop |
| 5 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stay | mark |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 content | xcomp |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stay | advmod |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 goes | mark |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 goes | nsubj |
| 12 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | advcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 goes | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 content | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | you | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go away in a quote | present | your father | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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