The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 18

“You will hardly believe, sire, what Charming has the audacity to say--that if _he_ had been sent to the Princess Goldilocks she would certainly have come back with him.

Who acts: You, Charming · What happens: believe, have, say, send, come back · To what, where: sire, Princess Goldilocks · 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 (You, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 believe	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 believe	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 believe	aux
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 believe	advmod
5	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sire	punct
7	sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believe	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 has	obj
10	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sire	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 audacity	det
13	audacity	audacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 say	mark
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 audacity	acl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 _	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 _	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 _	mark
19	_	_	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 say	ccomp
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 _	nsubj
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sent	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 sent	aux:pass
24	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 believe	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 Goldilocks	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Goldilocks	det
27	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Goldilocks	compound
28	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 sent	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 come	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
31	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	33 come	advmod
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 sent	parataxis
34	back	back	ADV	_	33 come	advmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 come	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	believe in a quote	future	You	sire		hardly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sire=Stimulus
2	have in a quote	present	Charming	sire			tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	Charming not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	send in a quote	past · perfect · passive			the Princess Goldilocks		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to goldilocks=Destination
5	come back in a quote	would · perfect	Charming			with king; certainly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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