The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 60
“Dear Beauty, try not to regret all you have left behind you, for you are destined to a better fate.
Who acts: Dear Beauty · What happens: try, not regret, leave, destine · To what, where: all, 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 (Dear 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 try | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Beauty | amod |
| 3 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 try | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Beauty | punct |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 regret | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 regret | mark |
| 8 | regret | regret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 try | xcomp |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 left | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 left | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 regret | ccomp |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 left | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 destined | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 destined | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 destined | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 destined | aux:pass |
| 19 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 left | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 fate | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fate | det |
| 22 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 fate | amod |
| 23 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 destined | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | infinitive | Dear Beauty | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not regret not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Dear Beauty not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | present · perfect · passive | all | behind you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme behind you=Location | ||||
| 4 | destine in a quote | present · passive | you | to a better fate | 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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