The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 184
However, little Frisk came to console him, and told him all the news.
Who acts: little Frisk · What happens: come, tell · To what, where: console, news, king · 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 (little Frisk), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Frisk | amod |
| 4 | Frisk | frisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 console | mark |
| 7 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 console | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 news | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 news | det |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | little Frisk | console | however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | little Frisk not said here | all news | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient news=Topic |
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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