The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 132
“You see I have not forgotten the good turn you did me in killing the eagle.
Who acts: You, Charming · What happens: see, not forget, do, kill · To what, where: good turn, Charming, eagle · 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 (You, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 forgotten | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 forgotten | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 forgotten | advmod |
| 7 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 see | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 turn | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turn | amod |
| 10 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forgotten | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turn | acl:relcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 did | obj |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 killing | mark |
| 15 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 did | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eagle | det |
| 17 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 killing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not forget in a quote | present · perfect | Charming | the good turn | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | you | Charming | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | gerund | you not said here | the eagle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=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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