The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 162
Then find the King my master, and relate all my adventures to him.”
Who acts: you, my · What happens: find, relate, adventure · To what, where: King, adventures, master
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, my), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 find | advmod |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 master | nmod:poss |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 relate | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 relate | cc |
| 9 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 find | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 adventures | det:predet |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 12 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 relate | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 adventures | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | imperative | you not said here | the King | then | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent king=Theme master=Attribute | |||
| 2 | relate | infinitive | you not said here | my adventures | master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | adventure | my | to master | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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