The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 198
“Come, faithful Charming, I make you king, and will take you for my husband.”
Who acts: you, Charming · What happens: come, make, take · To what, where: faithful Charming, king, you
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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Charming | punct |
| 4 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Charming | amod |
| 5 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 make | nsubj |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 take | cc |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 husband | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 husband | nmod:poss |
| 18 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | faithful Charming | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | Charming | king | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary king=Product | |||
| 3 | take in a quote | future | you not said here | you | for my husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Theme for husband=Beneficiary |
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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