The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 129

The rhymes were not very correct, but you see he had made them up so quickly that it is a miracle that they were not worse; especially as he was horribly frightened all the time.

Who acts: rhymes, you, Pray, path · What happens: not be, see, make up, be, frighten · To what, where: rhymes, miracle, Pray · 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 (rhymes, you, Pray, path), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rhymes	det
2	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 correct	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 correct	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 correct	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 correct	advmod
6	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 correct	parataxis
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 see	ccomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 made	compound:prt
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 quickly	advmod
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	13 made	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 miracle	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 miracle	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 miracle	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 miracle	det
22	miracle	miracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 worse	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 worse	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 worse	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 worse	advmod
27	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 miracle	acl:relcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 frightened	punct
29	especially	especially	ADV	_	34 frightened	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 frightened	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 frightened	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 frightened	aux:pass
33	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	34 frightened	advmod
34	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 correct	parataxis
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 time	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 time	det
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 frightened	obl:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 correct	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the rhymes			correct property	tree rules
2	see	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	make up	past · perfect	Pray	rhymes = rhyme		quickly property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Pivot
4	is a	present	path	a miracle			tree rules
5	not is	past	rhymes = rhyme	a miracle not said here		bad property	tree rules
6	frighten	past · passive		Pray	time	especially, horribly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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