The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 35

I assure you it is not his fault that he is so ugly.”

Who acts: I, pain, Beast · What happens: assure, not be, be · To what, where: you, fault

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 (I, pain, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 assure	nsubj
2	assure	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 assure	iobj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fault	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fault	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fault	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fault	nmod:poss
8	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 assure	parataxis
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 ugly	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ugly	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ugly	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 ugly	advmod
13	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fault	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 assure	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 assure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	assure	present	I		you		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	not is a	present	pain	Beast's fault			tree rules
3	is	present	Beast			ugly property	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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