The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 109
“Truly, Charming,” said she, “you must be the favorite of some fairy, or you could never have found it.”
Who acts: Charming, you · What happens: say, be, not find · To what, where: favorite, fairy · 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, you), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 Charming | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Truly | punct |
| 4 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Charming | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Charming | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 favorite | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 favorite | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 favorite | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 favorite | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 favorite | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 favorite | det |
| 15 | favorite | favorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fairy | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 fairy | det |
| 18 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 favorite | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 found | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 found | aux |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Charming | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | must | you | the favorite | of some fairy | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not find in a quote | could · perfect | you | fairy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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