The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 84

And after about an hour’s talk Beauty began to think that the Beast was not nearly so terrible as she had supposed at first.

Who acts: Beauty, Beast · What happens: begin, think, not be, suppose · To what, where: Beauty

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, Beast), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	7 talk	case
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 hour	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hour	det
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	compound
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 hour	case
7	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	obl
8	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 think	mark
11	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 terrible	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Beast	det
14	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 terrible	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 terrible	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 terrible	advmod
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	19 terrible	advmod
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 terrible	advmod
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 think	ccomp
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 supposed	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 supposed	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 supposed	aux
23	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 terrible	advcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 first	case
25	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 supposed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Beauty		after hour talk		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Beauty not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	the Beast			nearly, terrible property	tree rules
4	suppose	past · perfect · passive		Beauty			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute

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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