--- title: “I think, father,” she said, “that, as the gold will be more useful… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “I think, father,” she said, “that, as the gold will be more useful to you, we had better take out the other things again, and fill the trunks with it.” Who acts: Beauty, gold, we. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/38/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/) / 38 # The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 38 “I think, father,” she said, “that, as the gold will be more useful to you, we had better take out the other things again, and fill the trunks with it.” **Who acts:** Beauty, gold, we · **What happens:** think, say, be, have, take out, fill · **To what, where:** father, that, you, other things, trunks · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty, gold, we), 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:pg503:15:38 # text = “I think, father,” she said, “that, as the gold will be more useful to you, we had better take out the other things again, and fill the trunks with it.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 19 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 20 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 xcomp _ _ 27 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 32 again again ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Beauty | father | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent father=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Beauty | that | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the gold | | you | | | useful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | we | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **take out** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | the other things | | | again | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 6 | **fill** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | the trunks | | | | with gold | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient with it=Instrument | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/39/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/)