The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 45

The merchant ate his with a good appetite, as the Beast’s generosity made him believe that he might perhaps venture to come back soon and see Beauty.

Who acts: merchant, generosity, father · What happens: eat, make, believe, venture, come back, see · To what, where: father, Beauty · 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 (merchant, generosity, father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ate	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 appetite	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 appetite	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 appetite	amod
8	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Beast	det
12	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 generosity	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Beast	case
14	generosity	generosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	obj
17	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 made	xcomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 venture	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 venture	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 venture	aux
21	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	22 venture	advmod
22	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 believe	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 come	mark
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 venture	xcomp
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 come	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 see	cc
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 come	conj
29	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the merchant	father	with a good appetite	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent his=Patient
2	make	past	the Beast's generosity	father		tree rules
3	believe	infinitive	father not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	venture	might	generosity		perhaps property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come back	to-infinitive	generosity not said here		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	infinitive	generosity not said here	Beauty		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus

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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