The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 168
Charming thanked her with all his heart, and joyfully hastened back to the town.
Who acts: Charming · What happens: thank, hasten back · To what, where: rock, town
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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 heart | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hastened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hastened | cc |
| 10 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 11 hastened | advmod |
| 11 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 thanked | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 hastened | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hastened | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Charming | rock | with Beauty's heart | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | hasten back | participle | Charming not said here | the town | joyfully property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to town=Destination |
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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