The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 49

Every day when she got up she meant to say it at night, and when night came she put it off again, until at last she had a dismal dream which helped her to make up her mind.

Who acts: Beauty, night, dismal dream · What happens: get up, mean, say, come, put off, have · To what, where: courage, dismal dream, Beauty, mind · 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, night, dismal dream), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meant	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 got	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 day	acl:relcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 got	compound:prt
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 meant	nsubj
8	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 meant	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 say	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 put	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 came	advmod
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 put	advcl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	nsubj
20	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 meant	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obj
22	off	off	ADP	_	20 put	compound:prt
23	again	again	ADV	_	20 put	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 last	punct
25	until	until	ADP	_	27 last	case
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 put	conj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 last	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 dream	det
31	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dream	amod
32	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 helped	nsubj
34	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dream	acl:relcl
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 helped	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 make	mark
37	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 helped	xcomp
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 make	compound:prt
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 mind	nmod:poss
40	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 make	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	get up	past	Beauty			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	mean	past	Beauty		day	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Beauty not said here	courage	night	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	come	past	night			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	put off	past	Beauty	courage	again	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
6	have	past	Beauty	a dismal dream		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient
7	help	past	a dismal dream	Beauty		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
8	make up	to-infinitive	Beauty not said here	Beauty's mind		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
9	mind		Beauty			nom mind «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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