The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 111
“Since you are so kind,” said she, “perhaps you will do me another service, for till it is done I will never be married.
Who acts: you, madam · What happens: be, say, do, not marry · To what, where: service, madam · 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 (you, madam), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 kind | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 kind | advmod |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 16 do | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | iobj |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 service | det |
| 19 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 done | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 done | mark |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 done | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 done | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | aux:pass |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 do | advcl |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 married | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 married | aux |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 married | advmod |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 married | aux:pass |
| 30 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 done | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | madam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | you | another service | madam | perhaps property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · passive | service | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | not marry in a quote | future · passive | madam | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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