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title: And after about an hour’s talk Beauty began to think that the Beast… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And after about an hour’s talk Beauty began to think that the Beast was not nearly so terrible as she had supposed at first. Who acts: Beauty, Beast. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 84

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And after about an hour’s talk Beauty began to think that the Beast was not nearly so terrible as she had supposed at first.

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**Who acts:** Beauty, Beast · **What happens:** begin, think, not be, suppose · **To what, where:** Beauty

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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, Beast), 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:pg503:15:84
# text = And after about an hour’s talk Beauty began to think that the Beast was not nearly so terrible as she had supposed at first.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Beauty |  |  |  | after hour talk |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | the Beast |  |  |  |  | nearly, terrible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **suppose** | past · perfect · passive |  | Beauty |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |

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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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