--- title: Turning to ask the Beast what it could all mean, Beauty found that h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Turning to ask the Beast what it could all mean, Beauty found that he had disappeared, and in his place stood her long-loved Prince! Who acts: Beauty, blaze, 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Beauty and the Beast, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/) / 79 # The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 79 Turning to ask the Beast what it could all mean, Beauty found that he had disappeared, and in his place stood her long-loved Prince! **Who acts:** Beauty, blaze, Beast · **What happens:** turn, ask, mean, find, disappear, stand · **To what, where:** Beast, loved Prince, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, blaze, Beast), 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:pg503:16:79 # text = Turning to ask the Beast what it could all mean, Beauty found that he had disappeared, and in his place stood her long-loved Prince! 1 Turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Beast Beast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obj _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 all all ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 12 Beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 disappeared disappear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 23 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 loved love VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 28 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | gerund | Beauty *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Beauty *not said here* | | the Beast | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent beast=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | could | blaze | | | | | all *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **find** | past | Beauty | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **disappear** | past · perfect | Beast | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **stand** | past | Beauty *not said here* | Beauty's loved Prince | | Beast's place | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme in place=Destination | | 7 | **love** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/80/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/)