The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 16
“If the King had sent me to the Princess Goldilocks I am sure she would have come back with me.”
Who acts: Charming · What happens: send, be, come back · To what, where: King · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 sent | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sent | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Goldilocks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Goldilocks | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Goldilocks | compound |
| 11 | Goldilocks | Goldilocks | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sure | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | cop |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sent | conj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 come | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | past · perfect · passive | the King | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Charming | to the Princess Goldilocks; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come back in a quote | would · perfect | Charming | with Charming | 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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