The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 40

“The Beast was mocking us,” cried the merchant; “he must have pretended to give us all these things, knowing that I could not carry them away.”

Who acts: Beast, merchant · What happens: mock, cry, pretend, give, know, not carry away · To what, where: us, things · 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 (Beast, merchant), 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	_	5 mocking	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Beast	det
3	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mocking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mocking	aux
5	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	csubj
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 mocking	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mocking	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 mocking	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 merchant	det
11	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 pretended	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 pretended	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pretended	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 pretended	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 pretended	aux
17	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 cried	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pretended	xcomp
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 things	det:predet
22	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 things	det
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 give	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knowing	punct
25	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 carry	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 carry	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 carry	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 carry	advmod
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 knowing	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 carry	obj
32	away	away	ADV	_	30 carry	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mock in a quote	past · progressive	the Beast	us			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the merchant				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pretend in a quote	must · perfect	merchant				tree rules
4	give in a quote	to-infinitive	merchant not said here	all things	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient thing=Theme
5	know in a quote	gerund	the merchant not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	not carry away in a quote	could	the merchant = merchant	things = thing		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/40/