The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 56
“What can I do, Prince, to make you happy?” said Beauty.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: do, make, say · To what, where: Prince, you · 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 (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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Prince | punct |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | Beauty | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | you | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Beauty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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