The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 57
“Only be grateful,” he answered, “and do not trust too much to your eyes.
Who acts: you, prince · What happens: be, answer, not trust · To what, where: much · 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 (you, prince), 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 | _ | 4 grateful | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 grateful | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 grateful | cop |
| 4 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grateful | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 grateful | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grateful | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trust | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 trust | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trust | cc |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 trust | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 trust | advmod |
| 14 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 trust | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 much | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grateful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | imperative | you not said here | grateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not trust in a quote | infinitive · do-support | much | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=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.
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