The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 112

There is a prince not far from here whose name is Galifron, who once wanted to marry me, but when I refused he uttered the most terrible threats against me, and vowed that he would lay waste my country.

Who acts: prince, name, Galifron, I · What happens: be, want, marry, refuse, utter, vow · To what, where: Galifron, me, terrible threats, country

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 (prince, name, Galifron, I), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 is	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 here	case
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 far	advmod
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 name	nmod:poss
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Galifron	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Galifron	cop
12	Galifron	Galifron	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 here	vocative
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 wanted	nsubj
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 wanted	advmod
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Galifron	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 marry	mark
18	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wanted	xcomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 marry	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 uttered	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 uttered	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 refused	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 refused	nsubj
24	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 uttered	advcl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 uttered	nsubj
26	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 threats	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 terrible	advmod
29	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 threats	amod
30	threats	threat	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 uttered	obj
31	against	against	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 threats	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 vowed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 vowed	cc
35	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 uttered	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 lay	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 lay	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 lay	aux
39	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 vowed	advcl
40	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 lay	xcomp
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 country	nmod:poss
42	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 waste	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a prince		there	far property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	Galifron's name	Galifron			tree rules
3	want	past	Galifron			once property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Galifron not said here	me			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	refuse	past	I				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	utter speech: other	past	name	the terrible threats		against me	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent threat=Topic
7	vow	past	name not said here				tree rules
8	lay	would	name				tree rules
9	waste	infinitive	name not said here	my country			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient
10	name		Galifron				nom name «communication transitive»: 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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