The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 176
But Goldilocks was so fond of Charming that she could not be happy unless he was near her, and she was always singing his praises.
Who acts: Goldilocks, marriage · What happens: be, not be, sing, praise · To what, where: praises
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 (Goldilocks, marriage), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 fond | cc |
| 2 | Goldilocks | Goldilocks | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fond | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fond | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 fond | advmod |
| 5 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Charming | case |
| 7 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fond | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 happy | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 happy | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 happy | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 happy | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 happy | cop |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fond | advcl |
| 14 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 18 her | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 her | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 her | cop |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 happy | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 singing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 singing | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 singing | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 singing | aux |
| 23 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 singing | advmod |
| 24 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fond | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 praises | nmod:poss |
| 26 | praises | praise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 singing | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Goldilocks | of Charming; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | could | Goldilocks | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | marriage | near Charming | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | Goldilocks | marriage's praises | always property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme | |||
| 5 | praise | marriage | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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