The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 33

It is only just that you should send them something very precious as a remembrance of yourself.”

Who acts: ride · What happens: be, remember · To what, where: yourself

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 (ride), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 send	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 send	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	8 send	advmod
4	just	just	ADV	_	8 send	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 send	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 send	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 send	aux
8	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 send	obj
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 send	obj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 precious	advmod
12	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 something	amod
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 remembrance	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 remembrance	det
15	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 precious	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 yourself	case
17	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 remembrance	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 send	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should · present	ride					send property	tree rules
2	remember			yourself					nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=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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