The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 75
Beauty answered politely, and quite enjoyed telling him all that had happened to her.
Who acts: Beauty, that · What happens: answer, enjoy, tell, happen · To what, where: Beast, 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 (Beauty, that), 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 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 2 answered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 enjoyed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 enjoyed | cc |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 enjoyed | advmod |
| 7 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | conj |
| 8 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 enjoyed | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 telling | iobj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 happened | det:predet |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happened | aux |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 telling | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 happened | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Beauty | politely property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | enjoy | past | Beauty not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Beauty not said here | Beast | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | that | Beauty | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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