The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 82

Then the Beast asked her how she had been amusing herself, and she told him all the rooms she had seen.

Who acts: Beast, Beauty · What happens: ask, amuse, tell, see · To what, where: Beauty, rooms, terror · 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 (Beast, Beauty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:1266): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 asked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Beast	det
3	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 amusing	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 amusing	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 amusing	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 amusing	aux
10	amusing	amuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 asked	ccomp
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 amusing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 rooms	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rooms	det
19	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	obj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seen	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 rooms	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Beast		Beauty	then	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	amuse	past · perfect · progressive	Beauty	Beauty			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	past	Beauty	all rooms	terror		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient room=Topic
4	see	past · perfect	Beauty	all rooms not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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