The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 127
Thereupon Charming sang out as loud as he could to the same tune:
Who acts: Charming · What happens: sing out
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), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 sang | advmod |
| 2 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 sang | compound:prt |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 loud | advmod |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sang | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 could | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 loud | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 tune | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tune | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tune | amod |
| 13 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 could | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing out speech: express | past | Charming | loud, thereupon property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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