The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 143
When you get into the cavern you will find an immense hole, which you must go down, and it is full of toads and snakes; at the bottom of this hole there is another little cave, in which rises the Fountain of Health and Beauty.
Who acts: you, immense hole, hole, bottom, little cave · What happens: get, find, go down, be, rise · To what, where: cavern, immense hole, Fountain
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, immense hole, hole, bottom), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 get | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 cavern | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cavern | det |
| 6 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 11 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hole | amod |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 go | nsubj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hole | acl:relcl |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 full | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 full | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 full | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 full | cop |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 find | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 toads | case |
| 25 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 full | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 snakes | cc |
| 27 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 toads | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 bottom | punct |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 bottom | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bottom | det |
| 31 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 is | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 hole | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 hole | det |
| 34 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bottom | nmod |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 36 is | expl |
| 36 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | conj |
| 37 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 cave | det |
| 38 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 cave | amod |
| 39 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 is | nsubj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 rises | punct |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 which | case |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 rises | nsubj |
| 43 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 cave | acl:relcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Fountain | det |
| 45 | Fountain | Fountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 rises | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Health | case |
| 47 | Health | Health | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Fountain | nmod |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 Beauty | cc |
| 49 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Fountain | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | you | the cavern | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into cavern=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | a immense hole | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go down | must | a immense hole | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is | present | hole | of toads and snakes; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | present | the bottom of this hole | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | rise | present | another little cave | the Fountain of Health and Beauty | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fountain=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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