The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 102
Take this, it is Princess Goldilock’s ring.”
Who acts: you, life · What happens: take, be · To what, where: this, ring
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, life), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ring | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ring | cop |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ring | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Goldilock | Goldilock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Princess | flat |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Princess | case |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | life | Princess's ring | tree rules |
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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