--- title: Every day when she got up she meant to say it at night, and when nig… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Every day when she got up she meant to say it at night, and when night came she put it off again, until at last she had a dismal dream which helped her to make up her mind. Who acts: Beauty, night, dismal dream. 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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 (Beauty, night, dismal dream), 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:pg503:16:49 # text = Every day when she got up she meant to say it at night, and when night came she put it off again, until at last she had a dismal dream which helped her to make up her mind. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 off off ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 until until ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 dismal dismal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get up** | past | Beauty | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **mean** | past | Beauty | | | | day | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Beauty *not said here* | courage | | | night | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **come** | past | night | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **put off** | past | Beauty | courage | | | again | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 6 | **have** | past | Beauty | a dismal dream | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | | 7 | **help** | past | a dismal dream | Beauty | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 8 | **make up** | to-infinitive | Beauty *not said here* | Beauty's mind | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 9 | **mind** | | Beauty | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/50/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/)