The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 140
“Princess,” said Charming, “I have killed your enemy; I hope you will now consent to marry the King my master.”
Who acts: Princess, you · What happens: say, kill, hope, consent, marry · To what, where: Princess, King · 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 (Princess, 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 | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 killed | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 killed | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 killed | aux |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 13 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hope | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hope | nsubj |
| 16 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 consent | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 consent | aux |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 consent | advmod |
| 20 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hope | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 marry | mark |
| 22 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 consent | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 marry | obj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 master | nmod:poss |
| 26 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marry | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer enemy=Result | |||||
| 3 | hope in a quote | present | Princess | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | consent in a quote | future | you | now | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the King | 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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