The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 183
So they took Charming, and as a reward for having served the King so faithfully he was shut up in the tower, where he only saw the jailer, who brought him a piece of black bread and a pitcher of water every day.
Who acts: enemies, king, jailer · What happens: take, serve, shut up, see, bring · To what, where: Charming, King, tower, jailer, piece
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 (enemies, king, jailer), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reward | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 reward | cc |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 reward | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 reward | det |
| 9 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 served | mark |
| 11 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 served | aux |
| 12 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 reward | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 served | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 shut | advmod |
| 16 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 19 shut | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shut | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shut | aux:pass |
| 19 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 shut | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 tower | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tower | det |
| 23 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shut | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saw | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 saw | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 saw | advmod |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tower | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 jailer | det |
| 30 | jailer | jailer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 brought | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 brought | nsubj |
| 33 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 jailer | acl:relcl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 brought | obj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 piece | det |
| 36 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 brought | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 bread | case |
| 38 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 bread | amod |
| 39 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 piece | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 pitcher | cc |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 pitcher | det |
| 42 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 piece | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 water | case |
| 44 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 pitcher | nmod |
| 45 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 day | det |
| 46 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | enemies = enemy | Charming | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument charming=Destination | ||||
| 2 | serve | gerund · perfect | enemies = enemy not said here | the King | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | shut up | past · passive | king | the tower | faithfully property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | see | past | king | the jailer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jailer=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | bring | past | the jailer | a piece of black bread and a pitcher of water | king | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination piece=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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