The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 12
Is it because you hate me that you want to escape?”
Who acts: heart, you · What happens: be, want, escape
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, you), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hate | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hate | nsubj |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 hate | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hate | nsubj |
| 5 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hate | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 want | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 want | nsubj |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hate | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 escape | mark |
| 11 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 want | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hate | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | heart | hate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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