The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 104

“Ah! poor fellow,” said she, “he must have come to say good-by, finding it impossible to do as I asked.”

Who acts: poor fellow, fellow, ring · What happens: say, come, find, do, ask · To what, where: good, ring · 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 (poor fellow, fellow, ring), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 fellow	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fellow	amod
5	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fellow	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 fellow	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	xcomp
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 say	obj
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
20	by	by	ADP	_	17 say	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 finding	punct
22	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 say	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 finding	obj
24	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 finding	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 impossible	xcomp
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 asked	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 asked	nsubj
29	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 do	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	poor fellow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come in a quote	must · perfect	fellow			tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	fellow not said here	good		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent good=Topic
4	find in a quote	gerund	fellow not said here	ring	impossible property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive	ring not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	poor fellow = fellow			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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