The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 107
Will it please you to marry my master?”
Who acts: bidding · What happens: marry · To what, where: master
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 (bidding), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 marry | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 marry | nsubj |
| 3 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 marry | discourse |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 marry | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 marry | mark |
| 6 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marry | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 marry | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | future | bidding | my master | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient |
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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