The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 103

Charming took the ring out of Dame Carp’s mouth, thanking her a thousand times, and he and tiny Frisk went straight to the palace, where someone told the Princess that he was asking to see her.

Who acts: Charming, carp, someone · What happens: take, thank, go, tell, ask, see · To what, where: ring, mouth, Charming, palace, Princess · 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 (Charming, carp, someone), 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	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
7	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Carp	compound
8	Carp	Carp	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mouth	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Carp	case
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thanking	punct
12	thanking	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 took	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thanking	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thousand	det
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 times	nummod
16	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thanking	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Frisk	cc
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Frisk	amod
22	Frisk	frisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 he	conj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
24	straight	straight	ADV	_	27 palace	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 palace	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 palace	det
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 told	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 told	advmod
30	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 told	nsubj
31	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Princess	det
33	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 told	obj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 asking	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 asking	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 asking	aux
37	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 told	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 see	mark
39	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 asking	xcomp
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 see	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	Charming	the ring		Dame Carp's mouth		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme out mouth=Initial_Location
2	thank speech: thank	gerund	Charming not said here		Charming		time	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	go	past	carp			the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
4	tell speech: assert	past	someone		the Princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient
5	ask speech: ask	past · progressive	carp					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	carp not said here	princess				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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