The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 110
“Madam,” answered he, “I was helped by nothing but my desire to obey your wishes.”
Who acts: Madam, my, your · What happens: answer, help, obey, desire, wish · To what, where: master, Madam, wishes · 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 (Madam, my, your), 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 | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 helped | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 helped | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 helped | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 helped | aux:pass |
| 11 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 answered | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 nothing | case |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 helped | obl |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 desire | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 desire | nmod:poss |
| 16 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nothing | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 obey | mark |
| 18 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 helped | xcomp |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 obey | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Madam | master | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | help in a quote | past · passive | Madam | by nothing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | obey in a quote | to-infinitive | Madam not said here | your wishes | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | ||||
| 4 | desire in a quote | my | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | wish in a quote | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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