The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 164
“Who calls me?” said he; then he saw an owl sitting in a hollow tree, who said to him:
Who acts: master, owl, hollow tree · What happens: call, say, see, sit · To what, where: master, owl, hollow tree · 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 (master, owl, hollow tree), 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 | _ | 3 calls | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 calls | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 calls | parataxis |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 calls | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 owl | det |
| 14 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 owl | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 18 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tree | amod |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sitting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tree | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert in a quote | present | master | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | master | a owl | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer owl=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | sit | gerund | a owl not said here | a hollow tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | a hollow tree | master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=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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