--- title: Then he asked if she thought she could be happy in his palace; and B… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he asked if she thought she could be happy in his palace; and Beauty answered that everything was so beautiful that she would be very hard to please if she could not be happy. Who acts: terror, Beauty, everything. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terror, Beauty, everything), 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:pg503:15:83 # text = Then he asked if she thought she could be happy in his palace; and Beauty answered that everything was so beautiful that she would be very hard to please if she could not be happy. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 Beauty Beauty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 22 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 27 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | terror | | | | then | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Beauty | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | could | Beauty | | | terror's palace | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Beauty | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | everything | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | would | Beauty | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **please** | to-infinitive | Beauty *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | Beauty | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | 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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/84/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/15/)