The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 145
The beautiful things will always remain beautiful, and the ugly things become lovely.
Who acts: beautiful things, ugly things · What happens: remain, become
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 (beautiful things, ugly things), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 things | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 remain | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 remain | aux |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 remain | advmod |
| 6 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 remain | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 become | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 become | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 things | det |
| 11 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 become | nsubj |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 remain | conj |
| 14 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 become | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | future | the beautiful things | always, beautiful property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | present | the ugly things | lovely 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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