The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 88
“Now,” said the Fairy to Beauty, “I suppose you would like me to send for all your brothers and sisters to dance at your wedding?”
Who acts: Fairy, Beauty, your · What happens: say, suppose, like, send, dance, wed · To what, where: Beauty, Fairy, wedding · 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 (Fairy, Beauty, your), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fairy | det |
| 7 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Beauty | case |
| 9 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 suppose | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 suppose | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 suppose | nsubj |
| 13 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 like | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 like | aux |
| 16 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 suppose | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 like | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 send | mark |
| 19 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 like | xcomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 brothers | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 brothers | det:predet |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 send | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sisters | cc |
| 25 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 brothers | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 dance | mark |
| 27 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 send | advcl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 wedding | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dance | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Fairy | Beauty | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to beauty=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | suppose in a quote | present | the Fairy = fairy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | would | Beauty | the Fairy = fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | for your brothers and sisters | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | dance in a quote | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | your wedding | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wedding=Location | ||||
| 6 | wed in a quote | your | nom wedding «event 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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