The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 77

She answered softly, “Yes, dear Beast.”

Who acts: Beauty · What happens: answer

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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	softly	softly	ADV	_	2 answered	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Beast	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Beast	punct
6	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 Beast	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Beast	punct
8	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Beast	amod
9	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answered	parataxis
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Beast	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Beauty					softly property	tree rules

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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