The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 19
He seems to think that he is so much handsomer than you that the Princess would have fallen in love with him and followed him willingly.”
Who acts: king, Princess · What happens: seem, think, be, fall, follow · To what, where: love, king
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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 think | mark |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seems | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 handsomer | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 handsomer | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 handsomer | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 handsomer | advmod |
| 10 | handsomer | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 think | parataxis |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 handsomer | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 fallen | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fallen | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fallen | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fallen | aux |
| 18 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 handsomer | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 love | case |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fallen | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 love | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 followed | cc |
| 24 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fallen | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 followed | obj |
| 26 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 24 followed | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | king | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | king | than you; handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall | would · perfect | the Princess | love with king | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | ||||
| 5 | follow | past | the Princess not said here | king | willingly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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