The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 186

Then the King took it into his head that perhaps he was not handsome enough to please the Princess Goldilocks, and he thought he would bathe his face with the water from the Fountain of Beauty, which was in the flask on a shelf in the Princess’s room, where she had placed it that she might see it often.

Who acts: King, head, Fountain, Goldilocks · What happens: take, not be, please, think, bathe, be · To what, where: foot, head, Princess Goldilocks, face, Fountain, flask · 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 (King, head, Fountain, Goldilocks), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 handsome	nsubj
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	14 handsome	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 handsome	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 handsome	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 handsome	advmod
14	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 head	acl:relcl
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 handsome	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 please	mark
17	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 handsome	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Goldilocks	det
19	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Goldilocks	compound
20	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 please	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 thought	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bathe	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 bathe	aux
27	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thought	ccomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 face	nmod:poss
29	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bathe	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 water	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bathe	obl
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 Fountain	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Fountain	det
35	Fountain	Fountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 bathe	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Beauty	case
37	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Fountain	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 flask	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 flask	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 flask	cop
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 flask	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 flask	det
43	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Fountain	conj
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 shelf	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 shelf	det
46	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flask	nmod
47	in	in	ADP	_	51 room	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Princess	det
49	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 room	nmod:poss
50	’s	's	PART	_	49 Princess	case
51	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flask	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 placed	punct
53	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	56 placed	advmod
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 placed	nsubj
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 placed	aux
56	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 room	acl:relcl
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 placed	obj
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 see	mark
59	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 see	nsubj
60	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 see	aux
61	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 placed	advcl
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 see	obj
63	often	often	ADV	_	61 see	advmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the King	foot	king's head	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination
2	not is	past	king's head				enough, handsome, perhaps property	tree rules
3	please	to-infinitive	king's head not said here	the Princess Goldilocks				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus goldilocks=Experiencer
4	think speech: other	past	king					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	bathe	would	king	king's face	the Fountain of Beauty and the flask		with the water	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with water=Theme
6	is	past	the Fountain of Beauty and the flask		the flask		on a shelf; in the Princess's room	tree rules
7	place	past · perfect	Goldilocks	foot				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	see	might	Goldilocks	foot			often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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