The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 147
You see, Charming, I could not leave my kingdom without taking some of it with me.”
Who acts: You, I · What happens: see, not leave, take · To what, where: Charming, kingdom, some
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, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Charming | punct |
| 4 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leave | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 leave | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 leave | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 leave | advmod |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obj |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 taking | mark |
| 13 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 leave | advcl |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 taking | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 some | nmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 taking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | Charming | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer charming=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not leave | could | I | my kingdom | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | I not said here | some | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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