--- title: Then the girls were very angry with Beauty, and said it was all her… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the girls were very angry with Beauty, and said it was all her fault, and that if she had asked for something sensible this would never have happened, and complained bitterly that they should have to suffer for her folly. Who acts: girls, castle, Beauty, this. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/98/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Beauty and the Beast, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/) / 98 # The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 98 Then the girls were very angry with Beauty, and said it was all her fault, and that if she had asked for something sensible this would never have happened, and complained bitterly that they should have to suffer for her folly. **Who acts:** girls, castle, Beauty, this · **What happens:** be, say, ask, not happen, complain, have · **To what, where:** fault · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, castle, Beauty, this), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:14:98 # text = Then the girls were very angry with Beauty, and said it was all her fault, and that if she had asked for something sensible this would never have happened, and complained bitterly that they should have to suffer for her folly. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 obl _ _ 26 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 27 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 28 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux _ _ 31 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 complained complain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 35 bitterly bitterly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 ccomp _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 suffer suffer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 folly folly NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the girls | | | | then | with Beauty; angry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | castle | Beauty's fault | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Beauty | | | | | for something | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **happen** | would · perfect | this | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **complain** *speech: other* | past | | | | | | bitterly *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **have** | should | girls *= girl* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **suffer** | to-infinitive | girls *= girl* *not said here* | | | | | for Beauty's folly | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/97/) - next →: [Beauty and the Beast, part 2, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/1/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/)