The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 51

He reproached her faintly with being the cause of his distress, and at the same moment a stately lady appeared, and said very gravely:

Who acts: Beast, stately lady · What happens: reproach, be, appear, say, distress · To what, where: Beauty · 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 (Beast, stately lady), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reproached	nsubj
2	reproached	reproach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reproached	obj
4	faintly	faintly	ADV	_	2 reproached	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 cause	case
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cause	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cause	det
8	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reproached	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 distress	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 distress	nmod:poss
11	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cause	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 appeared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 appeared	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 moment	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moment	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 moment	amod
17	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 appeared	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lady	det
19	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lady	amod
20	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 appeared	nsubj
21	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reproached	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 appeared	conj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 gravely	advmod
26	gravely	gravely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 said	xcomp
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 reproached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reproach	past	Beast	Beauty		faintly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	is	gerund				with the cause; of Beast's distress	tree rules
3	appear	past	a stately lady		moment		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	a stately lady not said here			gravely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	distress		Beast				nom distress «feeling 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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