The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 126

“Bring out your little boys and girls, Pray do not stay to do their curls, For I shall eat so very many, I shall not know if they have any.”

Who acts: you, Pray, help, curls · What happens: bring out, not stay, do, eat, not know, have · To what, where: little boys, curls, many, any

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 (you, Pray, help, curls), 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	_	2 Bring	punct
2	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 Bring	compound:prt
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boys	nmod:poss
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boys	amod
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Bring	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 girls	cc
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boys	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
10	Pray	Pray	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stay	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stay	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 stay	advmod
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Bring	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stay	xcomp
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 curls	nmod:poss
17	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 do	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eat	punct
19	For	for	SCONJ	_	22 eat	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 eat	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	aux
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stay	conj
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 many	advmod
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 many	advmod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eat	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 know	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 know	advmod
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 eat	conj
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 have	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 know	ccomp
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 have	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bring out in a quote	imperative	you not said here	your little boys and girls	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
2	not stay in a quote	present · do-support	Pray		tree rules
3	do in a quote	to-infinitive	Pray not said here	girls's curls	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curl=Eventuality
4	eat in a quote	shall	help	many	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
5	not know in a quote	shall	help		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	curls = curl	any	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient

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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