The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 76

And when at last the time came for him to go, and he asked, as he had so often asked before, “Beauty, will you marry me?”

Who acts: Beast, you · What happens: come, go, ask, have, marry · To what, where: Beauty, Beast · 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, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asked	ccomp
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 asked	advmod
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 asked	advmod
22	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 had	xcomp
23	before	before	ADV	_	22 asked	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Beauty	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 Beauty	punct
26	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 asked	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 marry	punct
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 marry	aux
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 marry	nsubj
30	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asked	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 marry	obj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past			time	for Beast	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	to-infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	Beast				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past	Beast				tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	participle	Beast not said here	Beauty		before, often property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	marry in a quote	future	you	Beast			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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