The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 128
“Come out and meet the valiant Charming Who finds you not at all alarming; Although he is not very tall, He’s big enough to make you fall.”
Who acts: you, valiant Charming, Pray · What happens: come out, meet, not find, not be, make, fall · To what, where: valiant Charming, you
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, valiant Charming, Pray), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 meet | cc |
| 5 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Charming | det |
| 7 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Charming | amod |
| 8 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 meet | obj |
| 9 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 finds | nsubj |
| 10 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Charming | acl:relcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 finds | obj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 finds | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 alarming | det |
| 15 | alarming | alarming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 finds | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 tall | punct |
| 17 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 22 tall | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tall | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 tall | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 tall | advmod |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 tall | advmod |
| 22 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Come | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ’s | punct |
| 24 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ’s | nsubj |
| 25 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | advcl |
| 26 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ’s | xcomp |
| 27 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 26 big | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 make | mark |
| 29 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 big | advcl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 make | obj |
| 31 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 make | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out in a quote | imperative | you not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | meet in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the valiant Charming | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | not find in a quote | present | the valiant Charming | you | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | Pray | tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fall in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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