The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 38

“I think, father,” she said, “that, as the gold will be more useful to you, we had better take out the other things again, and fill the trunks with it.”

Who acts: Beauty, gold, we · What happens: think, say, be, have, take out, fill · To what, where: father, that, you, other things, trunks · 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, gold, we), 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	_	3 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 think	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 that	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 that	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 that	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 useful	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gold	det
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 useful	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 useful	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 useful	cop
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 useful	advmod
20	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 useful	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 had	xcomp
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 take	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 things	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 things	amod
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 take	obj
32	again	again	ADV	_	27 take	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fill	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fill	cc
35	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 take	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 trunks	det
37	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fill	obj
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fill	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	Beauty	father				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent father=Attribute clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Beauty	that				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
3	is in a quote	future	the gold		you		useful property	tree rules
4	have in a quote	past	we				good property	tree rules
5	take out in a quote	infinitive	we not said here	the other things		again		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
6	fill in a quote	infinitive	we not said here	the trunks			with gold	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient with it=Instrument

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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