The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 21
“Ha, ha!” said he; “does he laugh at my unhappiness, and think himself more fascinating than I am?
Who acts: king · What happens: say, laugh, think, be · To what, where: unhappiness, king · 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 (king), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 4 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 2 Ha | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 laugh | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 laugh | punct |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 laugh | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laugh | nsubj |
| 13 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 unhappiness | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 unhappiness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | unhappiness | unhappiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laugh | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 think | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 think | cc |
| 19 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 laugh | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 think | obj |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 fascinating | advmod |
| 22 | fascinating | fascinating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 think | ccomp |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 I | case |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 fascinating | obl |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fascinating | cop |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | laugh in a quote | present · do-support | king | my unhappiness | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | king not said here | king | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | than king; fascinating property | 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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