The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 181
“It is quite true, now I come to think of it,” said the King.
Who acts: errand, King · What happens: be, come, think, say · 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 (errand, 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 | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 true | advmod |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 come | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 think | mark |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 think | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | errand | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | the King = king | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the King = king not said here | of errand | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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