The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 88

“Oh! what shall I say?” cried Beauty, for she was afraid to make the Beast angry by refusing.

Who acts: Beauty · What happens: say, cry, be, make, refuse · To what, where: Beast · 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 (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	_	7 say	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 afraid	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 afraid	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 afraid	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 afraid	cop
16	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cried	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 afraid	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Beast	det
20	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
21	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 make	xcomp
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 refusing	mark
23	refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 make	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	shall	Beauty			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	cry speech: express	past	Beauty			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	Beauty		afraid property	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	Beauty not said here	the Beast	angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beast=Product
5	refuse	gerund	Beauty not said here			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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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