The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 122
Charming praised his little dog’s plan, but knew that this help would not do much good.
Who acts: Charming, help, little dog · What happens: praise, know, not do, plan · To what, where: plan, good · 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 (Charming, help, little dog), 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 | 2 praised | nsubj |
| 2 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dog | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dog | amod |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plan | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 praised | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 knew | cc |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 praised | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 help | det |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 do | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 good | advmod |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 do | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past | Charming | Frisk's little dog's plan | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | not do | would | this help | good | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | plan | Frisk's little dog | nom plan «cognition 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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