The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 4
But as I did the mischief it is only just that I should suffer for it.
Who acts: I · What happens: be
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 (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 suffer | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 suffer | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mischief | det |
| 6 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 suffer | cop |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 suffer | advmod |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 suffer | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 suffer | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 suffer | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 suffer | aux |
| 14 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 suffer | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should · past · do-support | I | for mischief; suffer property | tree rules |
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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