The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 150
And, as the Princess Goldilocks showed no sign of relenting, he started with his little dog for the Gloomy Cavern.
Who acts: Princess Goldilocks, sign, man · What happens: show, relent, start · To what, where: sign
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 (Princess Goldilocks, sign, man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 showed | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 showed | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 showed | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Goldilocks | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Goldilocks | compound |
| 6 | Goldilocks | Goldilocks | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 showed | nsubj |
| 7 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 sign | det |
| 9 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 showed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 relenting | mark |
| 11 | relenting | relent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sign | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 started | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 started | nsubj |
| 14 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 showed | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 dog | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dog | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dog | amod |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 started | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Cavern | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Cavern | det |
| 21 | Gloomy | Gloomy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Cavern | compound |
| 22 | Cavern | Cavern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 dog | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the Princess Goldilocks | no sign | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | relent | gerund | no sign not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | start | past | man | with man's little dog for the Gloomy Cavern | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with dog=Subeventuality |
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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