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description: But though they were rich now, and lived in town again, and had plenty of acquaintances, Beauty found that nothing amused her very much; and she often thought of the palace, where she was so happy, especially as at home she never once dreamed of her dear Prince, and she felt quite sad without him. W
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 47

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But though they were rich now, and lived in town again, and had plenty of acquaintances, Beauty found that nothing amused her very much; and she often thought of the palace, where she was so happy, especially as at home she never once dreamed of her dear Prince, and she felt quite sad without him.

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**Who acts:** sisters, Beauty, nothing · **What happens:** be, live, have, find, amuse, think · **To what, where:** town, plenty, acquaintances, Beauty, home · **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 (sisters, Beauty, nothing), 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:pg503:16:47
# text = But though they were rich now, and lived in town again, and had plenty of acquaintances, Beauty found that nothing amused her very much; and she often thought of the palace, where she was so happy, especially as at home she never once dreamed of her dear Prince, and she felt quite sad without him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
24	amused	amuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	often	often	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	50	advmod	_	_
50	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
59	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	xcomp	_	_
61	without	without	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  | now | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past |  |  |  | town | again |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | plenty of acquaintances |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | past | Beauty | acquaintances *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **amuse** | past | nothing | Beauty |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Beauty |  |  |  |  | of the palace; often *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | Beauty |  |  |  |  | as home; happy *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **dream** | participle | Beauty | home *not said here* |  |  |  | of Beauty's dear Prince; once *property* | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic |
| 9 | **feel** | past | Beauty |  |  |  |  | without Prince; sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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