The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 65
“It seems, then, that this horrible Beast keeps him a prisoner.
Who acts: It, horrible Beast · What happens: seem, keep · To what, where: toilet
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 (It, horrible Beast), 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 | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 seems | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keeps | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 keeps | mark |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 Beast | nsubj |
| 9 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Beast | amod |
| 10 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 keeps | nsubj |
| 11 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seems | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keeps | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 prisoner | det |
| 14 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keeps | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | It | then | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | present | horrible Beast | toilet | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme prisoner=Attribute |
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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