The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 137
“Behold the brave Charming, who has killed the giant!”
What happens: kill · To what, where: brave Charming
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: 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 | _ | 9 killed | punct |
| 2 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 5 Charming | discourse |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Charming | det |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Charming | amod |
| 5 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | aux |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the brave Charming | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer giant=Result |
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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