The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 160

Charming, quite determined to get the water or die, now drew his sword, and, taking the crystal flask which Pretty Goldilocks had given him to fill, said to Frisk:

Who acts: Charming, Pretty · What happens: get, die, draw, take, give, fill · To what, where: water, sword, crystal flask, Frisk · 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, Pretty), 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	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 drew	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 determined	punct
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 determined	advmod
4	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Charming	amod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 determined	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 die	cc
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 get	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Charming	punct
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 drew	advmod
13	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sword	nmod:poss
15	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drew	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 taking	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 taking	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 taking	punct
19	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 drew	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flask	det
21	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 flask	amod
22	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taking	obj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 given	obj
24	Pretty	Pretty	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 given	nsubj
25	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Pretty	flat
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 given	aux
27	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 flask	acl:relcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 given	iobj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 fill	mark
30	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 given	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
32	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 flask	acl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 Frisk	case
34	Frisk	frisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	obl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive	Charming not said here	the water			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus
2	die	infinitive	Charming not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	draw	past	Charming	Frisk's sword		now	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
4	take	gerund	Charming not said here	the crystal flask			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme
5	give	past · perfect	Pretty	the crystal flask	Frisk		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=Theme
6	fill	to-infinitive	Pretty not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	say speech: assert	participle		the crystal flask not said here	Frisk		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to frisk=Recipient

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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