--- title: After much consideration, he answered: “You tell me yourself that th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After much consideration, he answered: “You tell me yourself that the Beast, frightful as he is, loves you dearly, and deserves your love and gratitude for his gentleness and kindness; I think the Prince must mean you to understand that you ought to reward him by doing as he wishes you to, in spite --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/44/) [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/) / 44 # The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 44 After much consideration, he answered: “You tell me yourself that the Beast, frightful as he is, loves you dearly, and deserves your love and gratitude for his gentleness and kindness; I think the Prince must mean you to understand that you ought to reward him by doing as he wishes you to, in spite of his ugliness.” **Who acts:** Prince, You, Beast, your · **What happens:** answer, tell, be, love, deserve, think · **To what, where:** yourself, Prince, you, love, Beast, spite · **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 (Prince, You, Beast, your), 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:pg503:16:44 # text = After much consideration, he answered: “You tell me yourself that the Beast, frightful as he is, loves you dearly, and deserves your love and gratitude for his gentleness and kindness; I think the Prince must mean you to understand that you ought to reward him by doing as he wishes you to, in spite of his ugliness.” 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 consideration consideration NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obl _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Beast Beast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 frightful frightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 22 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 dearly dearly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 deserves deserve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 gratitude gratitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 gentleness gentleness NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 ccomp _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 47 that that SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 49 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 50 to to PART TO _ 51 mark _ _ 51 reward reward VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 advcl _ _ 52 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 obj _ _ 53 by by SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 54 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 51 advcl _ _ 55 as as SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 56 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 wishes wish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 advcl _ _ 58 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 57 obj _ _ 59 to to PART TO _ 57 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 61 in in ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 62 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 63 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 65 nmod:poss _ _ 65 ugliness ugliness NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Prince | | | | after much consideration | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | You | yourself | Prince | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Beast | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **love** *in a quote* | present | the Beast | you | | | | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 5 | **deserve** *in a quote* | present | You *not said here* | your love and gratitude | | | | for Beast's gentleness and kindness | tree rules | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Prince | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **mean** *in a quote* | must | the Prince | you | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **understand** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **reward** *in a quote* | ought | you | | Beast | spite of Beast's ugliness | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 10 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | Prince | you | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | | 12 | **love** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 13 | **spite** *in a quote* | | | Beast's ugliness | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/45/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/)