The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 44

After much consideration, he answered: “You tell me yourself that the Beast, frightful as he is, loves you dearly, and deserves your love and gratitude for his gentleness and kindness; I think the Prince must mean you to understand that you ought to reward him by doing as he wishes you to, in spite of his ugliness.”

Who acts: Prince, You, Beast, your · What happens: answer, tell, be, love, deserve, think · To what, where: yourself, Prince, you, love, Beast, spite · 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 (Prince, You, Beast, your), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 consideration	case
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 consideration	amod
3	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 consideration	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
9	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 tell	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 loves	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Beast	det
15	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 loves	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 frightful	punct
17	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Beast	amod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 is	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 is	nsubj
20	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 frightful	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Beast	punct
22	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	advcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 loves	obj
24	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	22 loves	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 deserves	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 deserves	cc
27	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	conj
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 love	nmod:poss
29	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 deserves	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gratitude	cc
31	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 love	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 gentleness	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 gentleness	nmod:poss
34	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 deserves	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 kindness	cc
36	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gentleness	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 think	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 think	nsubj
39	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Prince	det
41	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 mean	nsubj
42	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 mean	aux
43	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 think	ccomp
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 mean	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 understand	mark
46	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 mean	xcomp
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 reward	mark
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 reward	nsubj
49	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 reward	aux
50	to	to	PART	_	51 reward	mark
51	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 understand	advcl
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 reward	obj
53	by	by	SCONJ	_	54 doing	mark
54	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 reward	advcl
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 wishes	mark
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 wishes	nsubj
57	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 reward	advcl
58	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	57 wishes	obj
59	to	to	PART	_	57 wishes	xcomp
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 spite	punct
61	in	in	ADP	_	62 spite	case
62	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 reward	obl
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 ugliness	case
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 ugliness	nmod:poss
65	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 spite	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
67	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Prince				after much consideration		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	You	yourself	Prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	be in a quote	present	Beast						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	love in a quote	present	the Beast	you				dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	deserve in a quote	present	You not said here	your love and gratitude				for Beast's gentleness and kindness	tree rules
6	think speech: other in a quote	present	Prince						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	mean in a quote	must	the Prince	you					tree rules
8	understand not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	reward in a quote	ought	you		Beast	spite of Beast's ugliness			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
10	do in a quote	gerund	you not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	wish in a quote	present	Prince	you					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
12	love in a quote		your						nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
13	spite in a quote			Beast's ugliness					nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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