The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 45
Beauty could not help seeing that this seemed very probable; still, when she thought of her dear Prince who was so handsome, she did not feel at all inclined to marry the Beast.
Who acts: Beauty, this · What happens: not help, see, seem, think, be, not feel · To what, where: all, Beast · 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, this), 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 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 help | advmod |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 help | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 seemed | mark |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 seemed | nsubj |
| 8 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seeing | ccomp |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 probable | advmod |
| 10 | probable | probable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 help | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 thought | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Prince | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Prince | amod |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 handsome | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 handsome | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 handsome | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 handsome | advmod |
| 24 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 feel | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 feel | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 feel | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 feel | advmod |
| 29 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 handsome | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 all | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 feel | obl |
| 32 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 feel | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 marry | mark |
| 34 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 inclined | xcomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Beast | det |
| 36 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 marry | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | could | Beauty | still | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | gerund | Beauty not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | this | probable property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Beauty | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | of Beauty's dear Prince; handsome property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not feel | past · do-support | Beauty | all | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location | ||||
| 7 | incline | participle | Beauty not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | marry | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | the Beast | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=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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