The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 167

Charming was only too glad to give her the flask, and she flitted into the cavern quite unnoticed by the dragon, and after some time returned with the flask, filled to the very brim with sparkling water.

Who acts: Charming · What happens: be, give, flit, unnotic, return, fill · To what, where: flask, Charming, cavern, time

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), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 glad	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 glad	advmod
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 glad	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flask	det
10	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flitted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flitted	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flitted	nsubj
14	flitted	flit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 cavern	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cavern	det
17	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flitted	obl
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 unnoticed	advmod
19	unnoticed	unnotic	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 cavern	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 dragon	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dragon	det
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 unnoticed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 time	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 time	cc
25	after	after	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flitted	obl
28	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 time	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 flask	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 flask	det
31	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 returned	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 filled	punct
33	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 time	acl
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 brim	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 brim	det
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 brim	advmod
37	brim	brim	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 filled	obl
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 water	case
39	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 water	amod
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 brim	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Charming					glad property	tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive	Charming not said here	the flask	Charming				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient flask=Theme
3	flit	past	Charming			the cavern	time		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cavern=Destination
4	unnotic	participle		the cavern not said here				by the dragon	tree rules
5	return	participle		some time not said here				with the flask	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fill	participle		some time not said here				to the brim with sparkling water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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