The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 80
However, as he did not seem at all ferocious, and only said gruffly:
Who acts: father · What happens: not seem, say · To what, where: all · 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 (father), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 seem | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seem | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seem | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 seem | advmod |
| 7 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 seem | obj |
| 10 | ferocious | ferocious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 all | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | gruffly | gruffly | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seem | past · do-support | father | all | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme all=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | gruffly, however property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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