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title: Beauty was so terrified by this dream that the next morning she anno… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Beauty was so terrified by this dream that the next morning she announced her intention of going back at once, and that very night she said good-by to her father and all her brothers and sisters, and as soon as she was in bed she turned her ring round upon her finger, and said firmly, “I wish to go 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 56

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Beauty was so terrified by this dream that the next morning she announced her intention of going back at once, and that very night she said good-by to her father and all her brothers and sisters, and as soon as she was in bed she turned her ring round upon her finger, and said firmly, “I wish to go back to my palace and see my Beast again,” as she had been told to do.

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**Who acts:** Beauty, intention, stately lady · **What happens:** be, announce, go back, say, turn, wish · **To what, where:** intention, ring, Beast, 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 (Beauty, intention, 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:pg503:16:56
# text = Beauty was so terrified by this dream that the next morning she announced her intention of going back at once, and that very night she said good-by to her father and all her brothers and sisters, and as soon as she was in bed she turned her ring round upon her finger, and said firmly, “I wish to go back to my palace and see my Beast again,” as she had been told to do.
1	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	50	advmod	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	round	round	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
54	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
60	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
62	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
64	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
65	to	to	PART	TO	_	66	mark	_	_
66	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	xcomp	_	_
67	back	back	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
68	to	to	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
69	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	70	nmod:poss	_	_
70	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obl	_	_
71	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
72	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	66	conj	_	_
73	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	74	nmod:poss	_	_
74	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	72	obj	_	_
75	again	again	ADV	RB	_	72	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
78	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	82	mark	_	_
79	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	82	nsubj	_	_
80	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	82	aux	_	_
81	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	82	aux:pass	_	_
82	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
83	to	to	PART	TO	_	84	mark	_	_
84	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	82	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
85	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Beauty |  |  |  |  | by this dream; terrified *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Beauty | Beauty's intention |  |  | morning |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Theme |
| 3 | **go back** | gerund | Beauty's intention *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Beauty |  |  |  | night | by Beauty's father and Beauty's brothers and sisters; good *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | Beauty |  |  |  |  | as bed | tree rules |
| 6 | **turn** | past | Beauty | Beauty's ring |  |  |  | upon Beauty's finger; round, soon *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | firmly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | a stately lady *= lady* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 9 | **go back** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | a stately lady *= lady* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to my palace *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
| 10 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | a stately lady *= lady* *not said here* | my Beast |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus |
| 11 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | Beauty |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 12 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 13 | **intend** |  | Beauty |  |  |  |  |  | nom intention «cognition 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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