The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 2

And it seemed to Beauty, now she understood him better, that when she said, “No, Beast,” he went away quite sad.

Who acts: it, Beauty, that, Beast · What happens: seem, understand, say, go away · To what, where: Beauty, him · 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 (it, Beauty, that, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 seemed	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Beauty	case
5	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 understood	punct
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 understood	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 understood	nsubj
9	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 understood	obj
11	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 understood	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 said	nsubj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 said	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Beast	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Beast	punct
19	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	21 Beast	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Beast	punct
21	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Beast	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 sad	advmod
28	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 went	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it		Beauty			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	understand	past	Beauty	him = he		now	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	that					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go away	past	Beast				away, sad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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