The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 192

So, when the King, thinking to improve his beauty, took the flask and sprinkled the water upon his face, _he_ fell asleep, and nobody could wake him.

Who acts: King, _, nobody · What happens: think, improve, take, sprinkle, fall, wake · To what, where: beauty, flask, water, face

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, _, nobody), 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	_	13 took	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 thinking	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thinking	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 took	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 improve	mark
9	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thinking	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 beauty	nmod:poss
11	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 improve	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flask	det
15	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sprinkled	cc
17	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sprinkled	obj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 face	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 face	nmod:poss
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sprinkled	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
24	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	nsubj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
28	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fell	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wake	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wake	cc
31	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 wake	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 wake	aux
33	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 fell	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wake	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	the King				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	improve	to-infinitive	the King not said here	king's beauty			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent beauty=Patient
3	take	past		the flask			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme
4	sprinkle	past		the water	water's face		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme upon face=Destination
5	fall	past	_			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wake	could	nobody	water			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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