The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 33
“Indeed, I should be ungrateful if I did not care for such a kind Beast,” cried Beauty indignantly.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: be, not care, cry · 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 | _ | 7 ungrateful | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 ungrateful | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ungrateful | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 ungrateful | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ungrateful | cop |
| 7 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cried | parataxis |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 care | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 care | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 care | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 care | advmod |
| 12 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ungrateful | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Beast | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 Beast | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Beast | det |
| 16 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Beast | amod |
| 17 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 care | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ungrateful | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ungrateful | punct |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 cried | obj |
| 22 | indignantly | indignantly | ADV | _ | 20 cried | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | should | Beauty | indeed, ungrateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not care a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · do-support | Beauty | for such kind Beast | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for beast=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Beauty | indignantly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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