The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 165
“You saved my life when I was caught in the net, now I can repay you.
Who acts: You, hollow tree · What happens: save, catch, repay · To what, where: life, hollow tree, net, you
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, 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 saved | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 saved | nsubj |
| 3 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saved | obj |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 caught | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | aux:pass |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saved | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 net | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 net | det |
| 12 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 repay | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 repay | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 repay | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 repay | aux |
| 17 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 caught | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 repay | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save in a quote | past | You | my life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch in a quote | past · passive | a hollow tree = tree | the net | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | repay in a quote | can | a hollow tree = tree | you | now | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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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