The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 171
The Princess found Charming such an agreeable companion that she sometimes said to him: “Why didn’t we stay where we were?
Who acts: Princess, Charming, we · What happens: find, say, not stay, be · To what, where: Charming, Beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Princess, Charming, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 companion | det:predet |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 companion | det |
| 7 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 companion | amod |
| 8 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 said | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 11 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 said | advmod |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 stay | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 stay | punct |
| 17 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 stay | advmod |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stay | aux |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 stay | advmod |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 stay | nsubj |
| 21 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 were | advmod |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 were | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stay | advcl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Princess | Charming | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent charming=Theme companion=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Charming | Beauty | sometimes property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not stay in a quote | past · do-support | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | past | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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