The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 149
Where you send me I will go, though I know I shall never return.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: send, go, know, not return · To what, where: me · 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 (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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 send | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 send | nsubj |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 send | iobj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 send | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | parataxis |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 return | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 return | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 return | advmod |
| 15 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not return | shall | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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