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title: “Can you really love such an ugly creature as I am?” said the Beast… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Can you really love such an ugly creature as I am?” said the Beast faintly. Who acts: you, Beast. 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 clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 69

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“Can you really love such an ugly creature as I am?” said the Beast faintly.

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**Who acts:** you, Beast · **What happens:** love, say · **To what, where:** ugly creature · **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 (you, Beast), 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:pg503:16:69
# text = “Can you really love such an ugly creature as I am?” said the Beast faintly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	faintly	faintly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** *in a quote* | can | you | such ugly creature |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Beast |  |  |  |  | faintly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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