The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 25
Beauty answered bravely that she was quite prepared to stay.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: answer, be, stay · 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 (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 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 2 answered | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 prepared | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 prepared | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 prepared | cop |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 prepared | advmod |
| 8 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stay | mark |
| 10 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 prepared | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Beauty | bravely property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Beauty | prepared property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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