The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 139
But very soon he arrived at the palace with the giant’s head, of which she was still terrified, though it could no longer do her any harm.
Who acts: creature, Charming, giant · What happens: arrive, be, do · To what, where: palace, harm, 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: who acts (creature, Charming, giant), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | cc |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 giant | case |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 palace | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 terrified | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 terrified | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 terrified | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 terrified | cop |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 terrified | advmod |
| 20 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 arrived | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 22 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 25 | no | no | ADV | _ | 26 longer | advmod |
| 26 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 do | advmod |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 terrified | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 do | iobj |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 harm | det |
| 30 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | creature | the palace with the giant's head | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Charming | still | terrified property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | could | giant | any harm | Charming | long property | tree rules |
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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