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title: He reproached her faintly with being the cause of his distress, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He reproached her faintly with being the cause of his distress, and at the same moment a stately lady appeared, and said very gravely: Who acts: Beast, stately lady. 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
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 51

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He reproached her faintly with being the cause of his distress, and at the same moment a stately lady appeared, and said very gravely:

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**Who acts:** Beast, stately lady · **What happens:** reproach, be, appear, say, distress · **To what, where:** Beauty · **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 (Beast, stately lady), 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:pg503:16:51
# text = He reproached her faintly with being the cause of his distress, and at the same moment a stately lady appeared, and said very gravely:
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reproached	reproach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	faintly	faintly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	gravely	gravely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reproach** | past | Beast | Beauty |  |  |  | faintly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the cause; of Beast's distress | tree rules |
| 3 | **appear** | past | a stately lady |  |  |  | moment |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a stately lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gravely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **distress** |  | Beast |  |  |  |  |  | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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