The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 100
And sure enough there was the great carp, who said to Charming:
Who acts: great carp · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Charming · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great carp), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 sure | cc |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 2 sure | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sure | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 carp | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 carp | amod |
| 8 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 carp | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Charming | case |
| 13 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the great carp | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the great carp | Charming | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to charming=Recipient |
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.
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