The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 22
Go, and let him be shut up in my great tower to die of hunger.”
Who acts: you, king · What happens: go, let, shut up, die · To what, where: king, great tower
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, 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 let | cc |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shut | aux:pass |
| 7 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 let | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 shut | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tower | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tower | nmod:poss |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tower | amod |
| 12 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shut | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 die | mark |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shut | advcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hunger | case |
| 16 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 die | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shut up | infinitive · passive | king not said here | my great tower | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | king not said here | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
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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