The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 193

Little Frisk was the first to hear the news, and he ran to tell Charming, who sent him to beg the Princess not to forget the poor prisoner.

Who acts: Little Frisk, Frisk, Charming · What happens: be, hear, run, tell, send, beg · To what, where: news, Charming, Frisk, Princess, poor prisoner · 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 (Little Frisk, Frisk, Charming), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Frisk	amod
2	Frisk	frisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 first	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 first	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 first	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 first	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 news	det
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ran	nsubj
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 first	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tell	mark
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ran	xcomp
16	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 sent	nsubj
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Charming	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sent	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 beg	mark
22	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sent	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 beg	obj
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 forget	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 forget	mark
27	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 beg	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 prisoner	det
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 prisoner	amod
30	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 forget	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 first	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Little Frisk			first property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	Little Frisk not said here	the news			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus
3	run	past	Frisk				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Frisk not said here		Charming		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent charming=Recipient
5	send	past	Charming	Frisk			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	Charming not said here		the Princess		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient
7	not forget	to-infinitive	Charming not said here	the poor prisoner			tree rules

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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