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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 19

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Only the youngest daughter had any doubt but that they would soon again be as rich as they were before, or at least rich enough to live comfortably in some town where they would find amusement and gay companions once more.

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**Who acts:** youngest daughter, daughters · **What happens:** have, be, live, find · **To what, where:** doubt, town, amusement

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest daughter, daughters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:14:19
# text = Only the youngest daughter had any doubt but that they would soon again be as rich as they were before, or at least rich enough to live comfortably in some town where they would find amusement and gay companions once more.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	before	before	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	obl	_	_
25	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
29	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	amusement	amusement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
41	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	42	advmod	_	_
42	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the youngest daughter | any doubt |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | would | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  | again | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | the youngest daughter *not said here* |  |  | some town |  | comfortably *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
| 5 | **find** | would | daughters *= daughter* | amusement and gay companions |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amusement=Topic |

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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.

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**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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