The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 144
It is some of this water that I really must have: everything it touches becomes wonderful.
Who acts: bottom, I, everything · What happens: be, have, touch, become · To what, where: water
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 (bottom, I, everything), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 water | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 water | cop |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 water | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 have | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 have | advmod |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 water | acl:relcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 becomes | punct |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 becomes | nsubj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 touches | nsubj |
| 15 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 everything | acl:relcl |
| 16 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 water | conj |
| 17 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 becomes | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 water | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bottom | of this water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | must | I | this water | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 3 | touch | present | bottom | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | become | present | everything | wonderful property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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