The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 83
Then he asked if she thought she could be happy in his palace; and Beauty answered that everything was so beautiful that she would be very hard to please if she could not be happy.
Who acts: terror, Beauty, everything · What happens: ask, think, be, answer, please, not be · To what, where: palace · 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 (terror, Beauty, everything), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 thought | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 happy | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 happy | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 happy | cop |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 palace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happy | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 answered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 answered | cc |
| 16 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 answered | nsubj |
| 17 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 beautiful | mark |
| 19 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 beautiful | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 beautiful | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 beautiful | advmod |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 answered | ccomp |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 hard | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hard | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 hard | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 hard | cop |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 hard | advmod |
| 28 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beautiful | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 please | mark |
| 30 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 hard | xcomp |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 happy | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 happy | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 happy | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 happy | advmod |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 happy | cop |
| 36 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 please | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | terror | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past | Beauty | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | could | Beauty | terror's palace | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | Beauty | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | everything | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | would | Beauty | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | please | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | not is a condition, not said to happen | could | Beauty | happy property | 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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