The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 177

“If it hadn’t been for Charming,” she said to the King, “I should never have come here; you ought to be very much obliged to him, for he did the most impossible things and got me water from the Fountain of Beauty, so I can never grow old, and shall get prettier every year.”

Who acts: city, Charming, king · What happens: have, not be, say, not come, oblige, do · To what, where: King, impossible things, water, Charming, Fountain · 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 (city, Charming, king), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 Charming	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 Charming	cop
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 Charming	case
8	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 King	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 come	advmod
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	conj
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 come	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 obliged	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 ought	nsubj
26	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 obliged	aux
27	to	to	PART	_	31 obliged	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 obliged	aux:pass
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADV	_	31 obliged	advmod
31	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 obliged	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 did	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 did	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 did	nsubj
37	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 obliged	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 things	det
39	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	40 impossible	advmod
40	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 things	amod
41	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 did	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 got	cc
43	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 did	conj
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 got	obj
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 got	obj
46	from	from	ADP	_	48 Fountain	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Fountain	det
48	Fountain	Fountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 got	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Beauty	case
50	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Fountain	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 grow	punct
52	so	so	ADV	_	56 grow	advmod
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 grow	nsubj
54	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 grow	aux
55	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	56 grow	advmod
56	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 obliged	conj
57	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 grow	xcomp
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 get	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 get	cc
60	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 get	aux
61	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
62	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	61 get	xcomp
63	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	64 year	det
64	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 get	obl:unmarked
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	61 get	punct
66	”	"	PUNCT	_	61 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	city						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	participle						for Charming	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Charming		the King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not come in a quote	should · perfect	Charming			here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	oblige in a quote	ought · passive	Charming not said here		king				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»
6	do in a quote	past	king	the impossible things					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
7	get in a quote	past	king not said here	water	Charming	the Fountain of Beauty			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary water=Theme
8	not grow in a quote	can	Charming					old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	get in a quote	shall					year	pretty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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