The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 121

Frisk tried to encourage him by saying: “While you are fighting the giant, dear master, I will go and bite his heels, and when he stoops down to look at me you can kill him.”

Who acts: Frisk, you · What happens: try, encourage, say, fight, go, bite · To what, where: Frisk, giant dear master, heels · 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 (Frisk, you), 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	Frisk	frisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 encourage	mark
4	encourage	encourage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 encourage	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 saying	mark
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 encourage	advcl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
10	While	while	SCONJ	_	13 fighting	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 fighting	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fighting	aux
13	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 go	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 master	det
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 master	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 giant	punct
17	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 master	amod
18	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fighting	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fighting	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 saying	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bite	cc
24	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 go	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heels	nmod:poss
26	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bite	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stoops	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stoops	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 stoops	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stoops	nsubj
31	stoops	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	parataxis
32	down	down	ADV	_	31 stoops	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 look	mark
34	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 stoops	advcl
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 look	obl
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 kill	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 kill	aux
39	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 look	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 kill	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 stoops	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 stoops	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	Frisk			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	encourage not said to happen	to-infinitive	Frisk not said here	Frisk		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Frisk not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fight in a quote	present · progressive	you	the giant dear master		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Co-Agent
5	go in a quote	future	Frisk			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bite in a quote	infinitive	Frisk not said here	Frisk's heels		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Patient
7	stoop down in a quote	present	Frisk		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	look in a quote	to-infinitive	Frisk not said here		at Frisk	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme
9	kill in a quote	can	you	Frisk		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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