The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 86
“How can I ever thank you enough, charming girl, for having restored my dear son to his natural form?”
Who acts: Queen, consent · What happens: thank, charm, restore, form · To what, where: you, girl, dear son, natural form
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 (Queen, consent), 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 restored | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 thank | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 thank | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 thank | nsubj |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 thank | advmod |
| 6 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 restored | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 thank | obj |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 thank | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 charming | punct |
| 10 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 thank | advcl |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 charming | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thank | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 having | mark |
| 14 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 restored | aux |
| 15 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 son | amod |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 restored | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 form | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 form | nmod:poss |
| 21 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 form | amod |
| 22 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 restored | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 restored | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 restored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | can | the Queen = queen | you | ever | enough property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||
| 2 | charm in a quote | gerund | the Queen = queen not said here | girl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus girl=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | restore in a quote | gerund · perfect | my dear son | consent's natural form | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Theme to form=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | form in a quote | consent | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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