The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 3

Who could have guessed that to ask for a rose in the middle of summer would cause so much misery?

Who acts: summer · What happens: guess, ask, cause · To what, where: that, middle, much misery

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 (summer), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 guessed	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 guessed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 guessed	aux
4	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 guessed	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 guessed	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 rose	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rose	det
10	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ask	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 middle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 middle	det
13	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ask	obl
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 cause	mark
15	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cause	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 cause	aux
17	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 middle	acl
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 misery	amod
20	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cause	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	guess	could · perfect		that			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive			the middle	for a rose	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cause	would	summer	much misery			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition misery=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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