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title: Beauty answered politely, and quite enjoyed telling him all that had… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Beauty answered politely, and quite enjoyed telling him all that had happened to her. Who acts: Beauty, that. 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 75

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Beauty answered politely, and quite enjoyed telling him all that had happened to her.

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**Who acts:** Beauty, that · **What happens:** answer, enjoy, tell, happen · **To what, where:** 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, that), 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:pg503:16:75
# text = Beauty answered politely, and quite enjoyed telling him all that had happened to her.
1	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Beauty |  |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enjoy** | past | Beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Beauty *not said here* |  | Beast |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **happen** | past · perfect | that |  | Beauty |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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