The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 81
“Good-evening, Beauty,” she answered cheerfully and managed to conceal her terror.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: answer, manage, conceal · To what, where: terror
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 (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 | _ | 4 evening | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 evening | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Beauty | punct |
| 6 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 evening | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 evening | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 evening | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 10 answered | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 managed | cc |
| 13 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 conceal | mark |
| 15 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 managed | xcomp |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 terror | nmod:poss |
| 17 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 conceal | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Beauty | evening | cheerfully property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | manage | past | Beauty not said here | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | conceal | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | Beauty's terror | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent terror=Patient |
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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