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title: The girls lamented loudly over their lost hopes, and the sons declar… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The girls lamented loudly over their lost hopes, and the sons declared that their father should not return to this terrible castle, and began to make plans for killing the Beast if it should come to fetch him. Who acts: girls, father, castle. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beaut
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 96

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The girls lamented loudly over their lost hopes, and the sons declared that their father should not return to this terrible castle, and began to make plans for killing the Beast if it should come to fetch him.

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**Who acts:** girls, father, castle · **What happens:** lament, lose, declare, not return, begin, make · **To what, where:** girls, lost hopes, plans, Beast, father

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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 (girls, father, castle), 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:pg503:14:96
# text = The girls lamented loudly over their lost hopes, and the sons declared that their father should not return to this terrible castle, and began to make plans for killing the Beast if it should come to fetch him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	lamented	lament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lament** | participle |  | the girls *not said here* |  | girls's lost hopes |  | loudly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the girls |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **return** | should | girls's father |  |  |  |  | to this terrible castle *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result |
| 5 | **begin** | past | the girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | the girls *not said here* | plans |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product |
| 7 | **kill** | gerund | the girls *not said here* | the Beast |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme |
| 8 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | castle |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | castle *not said here* | father |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 10 | **hope** |  | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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