The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 30
“Ah! don’t be so sorrowful,” cried Beauty; “I am only going to assure my father that I am safe and happy.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: be, cry, go, assure · To what, where: 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorrowful | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 do | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorrowful | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sorrowful | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 sorrowful | advmod |
| 8 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorrowful | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorrowful | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 going | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 going | advmod |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 assure | mark |
| 20 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 going | xcomp |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 assure | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 safe | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 safe | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 safe | cop |
| 26 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 assure | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 happy | cc |
| 28 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 safe | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | sorrowful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Beauty | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Beauty | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | assure in a quote | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | my father | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Beauty | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be in a quote | Beauty not said here | tree rules |
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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