The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 116
So before I can listen to your proposal you must kill him and bring me his head.”
Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: listen, kill, bring, propose · To what, where: monkey, head, me
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 (I, you, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 listen | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 listen | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 listen | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 listen | aux |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 proposal | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 8 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listen | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 kill | aux |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 listen | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bring | cc |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 kill | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 listen | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | can | I | to your proposal | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to proposal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | must | you | monkey | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | monkey's head | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination head=Theme | |||
| 4 | propose | your | nom proposal «communication 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/116/