The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 68
“I never knew how much I loved you until just now, when I feared I was too late to save your life.”
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: not know, love, fear, be, save · To what, where: much, you, life · 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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 knew | advmod |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knew | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 loved | nsubj |
| 8 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 loved | obj |
| 10 | until | until | ADP | _ | 12 now | case |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 now | advmod |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 loved | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feared | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 feared | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 feared | nsubj |
| 16 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 loved | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 late | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 late | cop |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 late | advmod |
| 20 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feared | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 save | mark |
| 22 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 late | advcl |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 save | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | past | Beauty | much | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love in a quote | past | Beauty | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fear in a quote | past | Beauty | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | Beauty | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | save in a quote | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | your life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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