The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 41

“Let us wait and see,” answered Beauty.

Who acts: us, Beauty · What happens: let, wait, see, answer · To what, where: us · 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 (us, Beauty), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wait	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		us	tree rules
2	wait in a quote	infinitive	us not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see in a quote	infinitive	us not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	answer speech: assert	past	Beauty		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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