The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 6
Now she knew that he was really gentle in spite of his ferocious looks and his dreadful voice.
Who acts: Beauty, Beast · What happens: know, be, spite · To what, where: spite, ferocious looks · 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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 knew | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 gentle | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gentle | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gentle | cop |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 gentle | advmod |
| 8 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 spite | case |
| 10 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gentle | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 looks | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 looks | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ferocious | ferocious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 looks | amod |
| 14 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spite | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 voice | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 voice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 voice | amod |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looks | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Beauty | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Beast | spite of Beast's ferocious looks and Beast's dreadful voice | gentle property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | spite | Beast's ferocious looks and Beast's dreadful voice | 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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