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The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 43

Then Beauty asked her father what he thought could be the meaning of her strange dreams, and why the Prince constantly begged her not to trust to appearances.

Who acts: Beauty, Beast, Prince, sound · What happens: ask, think, be, beg, not trust, dream · To what, where: father, meaning, sound, appearances · 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, Beast, Prince, sound), 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

advmodnsubjnmod:possobjobjnsubjconjauxcopdetobjcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctccadvmoddetnsubjadvmodconjobjadvmodmarkccompcaseoblpunctrootThenADVBeautyPROPNaskedVERBherPRONfatherNOUNwhatPRONhePRONthoughtVERBcouldAUXbeAUXtheDETmeaningNOUNofADPherPRONstrangeADJdreamsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhyADVtheDETPrincePROPNconstantlyADVbeggedVERBherPRONnotPARTtoPARTtrustVERBtoADPappearancesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 askedadvmod
2BeautyBeautyPROPNNumber=Sing3 askednsubj
3askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 fathernmod:poss
5fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing3 askedobj
6whatwhatPRONPronType=Int8 thoughtobj
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 thoughtnsubj
8thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 askedconj
9couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin12 meaningaux
10bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf12 meaningcop
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 meaningdet
12meaningmeaningNOUNNumber=Sing8 thoughtobj
13ofofADP_16 dreamscase
14herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 dreamsnmod:poss
15strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos16 dreamsamod
16dreamsdreamNOUNNumber=Plur12 meaningnmod
17,,PUNCT_23 beggedpunct
18andandCCONJ_23 beggedcc
19whywhyADVPronType=Int23 beggedadvmod
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 Princedet
21PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing23 beggednsubj
22constantlyconstantlyADV_23 beggedadvmod
23beggedbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 askedconj
24hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 beggedobj
25notnotPARTPolarity=Neg27 trustadvmod
26totoPART_27 trustmark
27trusttrustVERBVerbForm=Inf23 beggedccomp
28totoADP_29 appearancescase
29appearancesappearanceNOUNNumber=Plur27 trustobl
30..PUNCT_3 askedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ask speech: askpastBeautysound's fatherthenvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
2think speech: otherpastBeastvn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3is acouldthe meaningof sound's strange dreamstree rules
4beg speech: requestpastthe Princesoundconstantly propertyvn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5not trust not said to happento-infinitiveappearancesvn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to appearance=Recipient
6dreamsoundnom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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