The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 13

“No, dear Beast,” answered Beauty softly, “I do not hate you, and I should be very sorry never to see you any more, but I long to see my father again.

Who acts: dear Beast · What happens: answer, not hate, be, not see, see · To what, where: Beauty, father · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dear 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 Beast	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Beast	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Beast	amod
5	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Beast	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 Beast	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
10	softly	softly	ADV	_	8 answered	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hate	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 hate	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hate	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hate	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hate	advmod
16	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 hate	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sorry	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sorry	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sorry	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sorry	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 sorry	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 sorry	advmod
24	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hate	conj
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 see	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sorry	xcomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	obj
29	any	any	ADV	_	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 see	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 see	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 see	cc
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 see	nsubj
34	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 see	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 see	conj
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 father	nmod:poss
38	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 see	obj
39	again	again	ADV	_	36 see	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	dear Beast		Beauty		softly property	tree rules
2	not hate in a quote	present · do-support	dear Beast = beast	Beauty				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	should	dear Beast = beast				sorry property	tree rules
4	not see in a quote	to-infinitive	dear Beast = beast not said here	Beauty				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	see in a quote	to-infinitive	dear Beast = beast	my father		again	long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus

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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