The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 2

And because she was so beautiful, and because her hair was like the finest gold, and waved and rippled nearly to the ground, she was called Pretty Goldilocks.

Who acts: princess, hair, finest gold · What happens: be, wave, ripple, call · To what, where: princess · 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 (princess, hair, finest gold), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 beautiful	cc
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 beautiful	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 beautiful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 beautiful	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 beautiful	advmod
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gold	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gold	cc
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 gold	mark
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hair	nmod:poss
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gold	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gold	cop
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 gold	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gold	det
15	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 gold	amod
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beautiful	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 waved	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 waved	cc
19	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gold	acl:relcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rippled	cc
21	rippled	ripple	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 waved	conj
22	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	25 ground	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rippled	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 called	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 called	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 called	aux:pass
29	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 waved	conj
30	Pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Goldilocks	amod
31	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 called	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	princess		beautiful property	tree rules
2	is	past	princess's hair		like the finest gold	tree rules
3	wave	past	the finest gold not said here			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ripple	past	the finest gold not said here		to the ground	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call	past · passive		princess		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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