The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 200
Everybody was delighted that he should be king, and the wedding, which took place at once, was the prettiest that can be imagined, and Prince Charming and Princess Goldilocks lived happily ever after.
Who acts: Everybody, king, wedding, Charming · What happens: be, take, imagine, live · To what, where: king, place, that
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 (Everybody, king, wedding, 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | cop |
| 3 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 king | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 king | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 king | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 king | cop |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 delighted | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 prettiest | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 prettiest | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wedding | det |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prettiest | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wedding | acl:relcl |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 prettiest | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prettiest | det |
| 22 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 delighted | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 imagined | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 imagined | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 imagined | aux:pass |
| 26 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 prettiest | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lived | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lived | cc |
| 29 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Charming | nmod:desc |
| 30 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 lived | nsubj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Goldilocks | cc |
| 32 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Goldilocks | compound |
| 33 | Goldilocks | Goldilocks | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Charming | conj |
| 34 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | parataxis |
| 35 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 34 lived | advmod |
| 36 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 37 after | advmod |
| 37 | after | after | ADV | _ | 34 lived | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Everybody | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | should | king | king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the wedding | place | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the wedding | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | imagine | can · passive | that | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | live | past | Charming Prince and Princess Goldilocks | after, happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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