The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 101
“You saved my life in the meadow by the willow tree, and I promised that I would repay you.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: save, promise, repay · To what, where: life, meadow, you · 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 (You, I), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saved | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 saved | nsubj |
| 3 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saved | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 meadow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 meadow | det |
| 8 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saved | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saved | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 promised | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 promised | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 promised | nsubj |
| 16 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saved | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 repay | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 repay | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 repay | aux |
| 20 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 promised | ccomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 repay | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save in a quote | past | You | my life | the meadow | by the willow tree | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||
| 2 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | repay in a quote | would | I | you | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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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