--- title: But her happy dreams of the handsome young Prince soon made her forg… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But her happy dreams of the handsome young Prince soon made her forget the poor Beast, and the only thing that at all disturbed her was to be constantly told to distrust appearances, to let her heart guide her, and not her eyes, and many other equally perplexing things, which, consider as she would, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/3/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/) / 3 # The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 3 But her happy dreams of the handsome young Prince soon made her forget the poor Beast, and the only thing that at all disturbed her was to be constantly told to distrust appearances, to let her heart guide her, and not her eyes, and many other equally perplexing things, which, consider as she would, she could not understand. **Who acts:** happy dreams, Beauty, only thing, heart, many other perplexing things · **What happens:** make, forget, disturb, tell, distrust, let · **To what, where:** Beauty, poor Beast, only thing, all, appearances, handsome young Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happy dreams, Beauty, only thing, heart), 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:pg503:16:3 # text = But her happy dreams of the handsome young Prince soon made her forget the poor Beast, and the only thing that at all disturbed her was to be constantly told to distrust appearances, to let her heart guide her, and not her eyes, and many other equally perplexing things, which, consider as she would, she could not understand. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 10 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 11 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Beast Beast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 obl _ _ 25 disturbed disturb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 30 constantly constantly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 distrust distrust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 appearances appearance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 38 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 guide guide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 parataxis _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 49 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 50 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 51 equally equally ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 perplexing perplex VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 53 amod _ _ 53 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 55 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 57 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 57 consider consider VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 acl:relcl _ _ 58 as as SCONJ IN _ 60 mark _ _ 59 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ _ 60 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 62 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 nsubj _ _ 63 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 65 aux _ _ 64 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 65 advmod _ _ 65 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 60 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Beauty's happy dreams of the handsome young Prince | Beauty | | | | Beauty's eyes *obl*; many other perplexing things *obl*; soon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **forget** | infinitive | Beauty *not said here* | the poor Beast | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **disturb** | past | | the only thing | | all | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer she=Result | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | the only thing | | | | constantly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **distrust** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the only thing *not said here* | appearances | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer appearance=Stimulus | | 6 | **let** | to-infinitive | the only thing *not said here* | Beauty | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 7 | **guide** | present | heart | Beauty | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 8 | **perplex** | gerund | | | | | | equally *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **consider** | infinitive | many other perplexing things | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **not** **understand** | could | Beauty | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 11 | **dream** | | Beauty | the handsome young Prince | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/4/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/)