The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 82
But the one she already knew said to her companion:
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: know, say · To what, where: one, companion · 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 knew | advmod |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 companion | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 companion | nmod:poss |
| 10 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Beauty | the one not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | Beauty's companion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to companion=Recipient |
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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