--- title: “No, dear Beast,” answered Beauty softly, “I do not hate you, and I… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “No, dear Beast,” answered Beauty softly, “I do not hate you, and I should be very sorry never to see you any more, but I long to see my father again. Who acts: dear Beast. 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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 (dear Beast), 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:pg503:16:13 # text = “No, dear Beast,” answered Beauty softly, “I do not hate you, and I should be very sorry never to see you any more, but I long to see my father again. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Beast Beast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Beauty Beauty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 softly softly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 hate hate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 any any ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 again again ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | dear Beast | | Beauty | | | softly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **hate** *in a quote* | present · do-support | dear Beast *= beast* | Beauty | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | should | dear Beast *= beast* | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | dear Beast *= beast* *not said here* | Beauty | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | dear Beast *= beast* | my father | | | again | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/14/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/)