The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 92
And she answered, “Good-night, Beast,” very glad to find that her refusal had not provoked him.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: answer, find, not provoke, refuse · To what, where: refusal · 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 night | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 night | punct |
| 6 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 night | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Good | punct |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Beast | punct |
| 10 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 night | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Beast | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Beast | punct |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 glad | advmod |
| 14 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 night | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 glad | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 provoked | mark |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 refusal | nmod:poss |
| 19 | refusal | refusal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 provoked | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 provoked | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 provoked | advmod |
| 22 | provoked | provoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 find | ccomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 provoked | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Beauty | night | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not provoke | past · perfect · passive | Beauty's refusal | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result | |||||
| 4 | refuse | Beauty | nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=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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