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title: “Indeed, I should be ungrateful if I did not care for such a kind Be… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Indeed, I should be ungrateful if I did not care for such a kind Beast,” cried Beauty indignantly. Who acts: Beauty. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 33

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“Indeed, I should be ungrateful if I did not care for such a kind Beast,” cried Beauty indignantly.

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**Who acts:** Beauty · **What happens:** be, not care, cry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Beauty), 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:pg503:16:33
# text = “Indeed, I should be ungrateful if I did not care for such a kind Beast,” cried Beauty indignantly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
20	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	indignantly	indignantly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | should | Beauty |  |  |  |  | indeed, ungrateful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **care** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · do-support | Beauty |  |  |  |  | for such kind Beast | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for beast=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Beauty |  |  |  |  | indignantly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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