The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 134
“Indeed, I owe you more gratitude than you ever owed me,” replied Charming.
Who acts: Charming, you · What happens: owe, reply · To what, where: you, Charming · 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 (Charming, you), 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 | _ | 5 owe | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 owe | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 owe | nsubj |
| 5 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 owe | obj |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 gratitude | amod |
| 8 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 owe | obj |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 owed | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 owed | nsubj |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 owed | advmod |
| 12 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 replied | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 owed | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 owed | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 owed | punct |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 owe | parataxis |
| 17 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 owe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe in a quote | present | Charming | you | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | owe in a quote | past | you | Charming | ever | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Charming | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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