The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 54
Only try to find me out, no matter how I may be disguised, as I love you dearly, and in making me happy you will find your own happiness.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: try, find out, disguise, love, make, find · To what, where: me, I, you, own happiness
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 (you, 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 try | advmod |
| 2 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 find | mark |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 try | xcomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 find | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 matter | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 matter | det |
| 9 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 disguised | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 disguised | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 disguised | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 disguised | aux:pass |
| 14 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 matter | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 love | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 love | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 love | nsubj |
| 18 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 disguised | parataxis |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 love | obj |
| 20 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 18 love | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 find | cc |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 making | mark |
| 24 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 find | advcl |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 making | iobj |
| 26 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 making | xcomp |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 find | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 find | aux |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 love | conj |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 31 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 happiness | amod |
| 32 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 find | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | imperative | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | find out not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | no matter obl | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | |||
| 3 | disguise | may · passive | I | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 4 | love | present | I | you | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | make | gerund | you not said here | me | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 6 | find | future | you | your own happiness | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Topic |
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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