The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 15
The Beast, who had been sighing dolefully while she spoke, now replied:
Who acts: Beast, Beauty · What happens: sigh, speak, reply · 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 (Beast, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Beast | det |
| 2 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sighing | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighing | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sighing | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sighing | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 sighing | aux |
| 7 | sighing | sigh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | dolefully | dolefully | ADV | _ | 7 sighing | advmod |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 spoke | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 spoke | nsubj |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sighing | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 replied | advmod |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 sighing | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past · perfect · progressive | the Beast | dolefully property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Beauty | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | participle | the Beast not said here | now | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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