The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 15

He happened to one day be with some people who were speaking of the ambassador’s return and saying that his going to the Princess had not done much good, when Charming said rashly:

Who acts: ambassador, people, Charming · What happens: happen, be, speak, say, go, not do · 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 (ambassador, people, Charming), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
6	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 happened	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 people	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 be	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 speaking	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 speaking	aux
12	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 people	acl:relcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 return	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ambassador	det
15	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 return	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 ambassador	case
17	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speaking	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saying	cc
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 speaking	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 going	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 going	nsubj
22	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 saying	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Princess	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Princess	det
25	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 done	obl
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 done	advmod
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 going	advcl
29	much	much	ADV	_	30 good	advmod
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 done	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 said	advmod
33	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saying	conj
35	rashly	rashly	ADV	_	34 said	advmod
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	ambassador	day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	infinitive	ambassador not said here		with some people	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	speak speech: other	past · progressive	some people		of the ambassador's return	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund	some people not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	gerund	ambassador			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not do	past · perfect	ambassador not said here		to the Princess; good property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	past	Charming		rashly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	return		the ambassador			nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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