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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 8

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Indeed, the daughters at first hoped that their friends, who had been so numerous while they were rich, would insist on their staying in their houses now they no longer possessed one.

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**Who acts:** daughters, friends · **What happens:** hope, be, insist, stay, possess · **To what, where:** houses, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (daughters, friends), 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:pg503:14:8
# text = Indeed, the daughters at first hoped that their friends, who had been so numerous while they were rich, would insist on their staying in their houses now they no longer possessed one.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	obl	_	_
7	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
17	while	while	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	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	insist	insist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
24	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	no	no	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
34	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | past | the daughters |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | daughters's friends |  |  |  |  | numerous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **insist** *speech: other* | would | daughters's friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stay** | gerund | friends *= friend* |  |  | daughters's houses |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 6 | **possess** | past | friends *= friend* | one |  |  | now | long *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=Theme |

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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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