The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 189
So, without saying a word, she fetched it and stood it upon the Queen’s shelf.
Who acts: princess · What happens: say, fetch, stand · To what, where: word, flask, shelf · 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 fetched | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 saying | mark |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fetched | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saying | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saying | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fetched | nsubj |
| 9 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fetched | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fetched | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | obj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 shelf | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Queen | det |
| 16 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shelf | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Queen | case |
| 18 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | princess not said here | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fetch | past | princess | flask | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | princess not said here | flask | the Queen's shelf | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon shelf=Destination |
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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