The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 199
Charming, once more free and happy, fell at her feet and thanked her for her gracious words.
Who acts: Charming · What happens: fall, thank, word · To what, where: feet, Charming
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 (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 | Charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 free | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 free | punct |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 free | advmod |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 happy | cc |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 free | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 free | parataxis |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fell | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thanked | cc |
| 14 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thanked | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 words | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 words | nmod:poss |
| 18 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 words | amod |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thanked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Charming's feet | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | |||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | Charming | for Charming's gracious words | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for word=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | word | Charming | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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