The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 11

The ambassador set off sadly on his homeward way, bringing all the King’s presents back with him, for the Princess was too well brought up to accept the pearls and diamonds when she would not accept the King, so she had only kept twenty-five English pins that he might not be vexed.

Who acts: ambassador, princess · What happens: set off, bring, bring up, accept, not accept, keep · To what, where: homeward way, presents, Princess, pearls, King, five English pins

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 (ambassador, princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ambassador	det
2	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
8	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	compound
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bringing	punct
11	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 set	advcl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 presents	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 presents	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 King	case
16	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bringing	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	11 bringing	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bringing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brought	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 brought	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Princess	det
23	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 brought	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 brought	aux:pass
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 well	advmod
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 brought	advmod
27	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 set	parataxis
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 brought	compound:prt
29	to	to	PART	_	30 accept	mark
30	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 brought	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pearls	det
32	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 accept	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 diamonds	cc
34	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pearls	conj
35	when	when	SCONJ	_	39 accept	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 accept	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 accept	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 accept	advmod
39	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 accept	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 King	det
41	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 accept	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 kept	punct
43	so	so	ADV	_	47 kept	advmod
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 kept	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 kept	aux
46	only	only	ADV	_	47 kept	advmod
47	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 brought	conj
48	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 five	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 twenty	punct
50	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 pins	nummod
51	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 pins	amod
52	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 kept	obj
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 vexed	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 vexed	nsubj
55	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 vexed	aux
56	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 vexed	advmod
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 vexed	aux:pass
58	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 pins	acl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set off	past	the ambassador		ambassador's homeward way	sadly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	gerund	the ambassador not said here	the King's presents		with ambassador	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent present=Theme
3	bring up	past · passive		the Princess		well property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	accept	to-infinitive		the pearls and diamonds			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme
5	not accept	would	princess	the King			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
6	keep	past · perfect	princess	five English pins			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Theme
7	not vex	might · passive		king			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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