The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 69
But, after all, it was only a dream, so why should I trouble myself about it?
Who acts: all, I · What happens: be, trouble · To what, where: dream, myself
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 (all, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 dream | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 dream | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dream | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dream | cop |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 dream | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dream | det |
| 10 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trouble | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 trouble | advmod |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 trouble | advmod |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 trouble | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 trouble | nsubj |
| 16 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dream | parataxis |
| 17 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 trouble | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 trouble | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | all | a dream | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trouble | should | I | myself | about prisoner | 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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