The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 169
He went straight to the palace and gave the flask to the Princess, who had no further objection to make.
Who acts: Beauty, Princess · What happens: go, give, have, make · To what, where: palace, flask, Princess, further objection
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 (Beauty, Princess), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 palace | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flask | det |
| 10 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Princess | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 objection | det |
| 18 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 objection | amod |
| 19 | objection | objection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 objection | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Beauty | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Beauty not said here | the flask | the Princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent flask=Theme to princess=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have | past | the Princess | no further objection | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | no further objection not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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