The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 69
“Can you really love such an ugly creature as I am?” said the Beast faintly.
Who acts: you, Beast · What happens: love, say · To what, where: ugly creature · 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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 love | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 love | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 love | advmod |
| 5 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 creature | det:predet |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 creature | det |
| 8 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 9 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 love | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 am | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 am | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 love | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Beast | det |
| 17 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | faintly | faintly | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | can | you | such ugly creature | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Beast | faintly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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