The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 6

At first nobody would hear of this arrangement, and her father and brothers, who loved her dearly, declared that nothing should make them let her go; but Beauty was firm.

Who acts: father, nothing, brothers, her, Beauty · What happens: hear, love, declare, make, let, go · To what, where: nobody, dearly, brothers, her

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 (father, nothing, brothers, her), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 nobody	case
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 nobody	amod
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 hear	obl
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
5	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 arrangement	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 arrangement	det
8	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 loved	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 loved	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 loved	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 brothers	cc
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 father	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 loved	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 loved	nsubj
17	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	parataxis
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dearly	nmod:poss
19	dearly	dearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 loved	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 declared	punct
21	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 loved	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 make	mark
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 make	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 make	aux
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 declared	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 make	xcomp
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 firm	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 firm	cc
32	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 firm	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 firm	cop
34	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hear	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	would			nobody	of this arrangement	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of arrangement=Stimulus
2	love	past	her father and brothers	her dearly			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dearly=Stimulus
3	declare speech: other	past	her father and brothers not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	make	should	nothing	brothers = brother			tree rules
5	let	infinitive	brothers = brother not said here	her = she			tree rules
6	go	infinitive	her = she not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	Beauty			firm property	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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