The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 118
“Very well, Princess, I will fight this Galifron; I believe that he will kill me, but at any rate I shall die in your defense.”
Who acts: monkey, Galifron · What happens: fight, believe, kill, die · To what, where: Galifron, monkey, rate · 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 (monkey, Galifron), 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 fight | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 Princess | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fight | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fight | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fight | aux |
| 9 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 Galifron | det |
| 11 | Galifron | Galifron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fight | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | nsubj |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fight | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 kill | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kill | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 kill | aux |
| 18 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 believe | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 kill | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 die | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 die | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 rate | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 rate | det |
| 24 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 die | obl |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 die | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 die | aux |
| 27 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 believe | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 defense | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 defense | nmod:poss |
| 30 | defense | defense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 die | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fight | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight in a quote | future | monkey | this Galifron | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent galifron=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | present | monkey | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | future | Galifron | monkey | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die in a quote | shall | monkey | any rate | in your defense | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in defense=Attribute |
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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