The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 117
Charming was rather dismayed at this command, but he answered:
Who acts: monkey · What happens: dismay, answer · To what, where: Charming, command
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 (monkey), 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 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dismayed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dismayed | aux:pass |
| 3 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 4 dismayed | advmod |
| 4 | dismayed | dismay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 command | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 command | det |
| 7 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dismayed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 answered | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dismayed | parataxis |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 dismayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismay | past · passive | Charming | this command | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | monkey | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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