The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 188

Not knowing what to do, she had hastily swept away the pieces of crystal, and then remembered that in the King’s room she had seen a flask of exactly the same shape, also filled with sparkling water.

Who acts: princess · What happens: not know, do, sweep away, remember, see, fill · To what, where: pieces, flask, room, same shape · 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 (princess), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knowing	advmod
2	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knowing	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swept	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 swept	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 swept	aux
9	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	10 swept	advmod
10	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 knowing	advcl
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 swept	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pieces	det
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 swept	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 crystal	case
15	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pieces	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 remembered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 remembered	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 remembered	advmod
19	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 swept	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 seen	mark
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 room	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 room	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 King	case
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seen	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seen	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seen	aux
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 remembered	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 flask	det
30	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seen	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 shape	case
32	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	35 shape	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shape	det
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shape	amod
35	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flask	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 filled	punct
37	also	also	ADV	_	38 filled	advmod
38	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 shape	acl
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 water	case
40	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 water	amod
41	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 filled	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knowing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	sweep away	past · perfect	princess	the pieces of crystal			away, hastily property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme piece=Trajectory
4	remember	past	princess not said here			then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	see	past · perfect	princess	a flask of the same shape	the King's room			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flask=Stimulus
6	fill	participle		the same shape not said here			with sparkling water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument

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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