The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 166
Trust me with the flask, for I know all the ways of the Gloomy Cavern, and can fill it from the Fountain of Beauty.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: trust, know, fill · To what, where: me, ways, way, Fountain
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, I), 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 | Trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Trust | iobj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 flask | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flask | det |
| 5 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trust | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Trust | parataxis |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 ways | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ways | det |
| 12 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 know | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Cavern | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Cavern | det |
| 15 | Gloomy | Gloomy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Cavern | compound |
| 16 | Cavern | Cavern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ways | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fill | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fill | cc |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fill | aux |
| 20 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 know | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fill | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Fountain | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Fountain | det |
| 24 | Fountain | Fountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 fill | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Beauty | case |
| 26 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Fountain | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Trust | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | imperative | you not said here | me | with the flask | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with flask=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | present | I | all ways of the Gloomy Cavern | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fill | can | I not said here | way | the Fountain of Beauty | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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