The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 23

So the King’s guards went to fetch Charming, who had thought no more of his rash speech, and carried him off to prison with great cruelty.

Who acts: guards, Charming, king · What happens: go, fetch, think, carry off, speak · To what, where: Charming, king, prison · 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 (guards, Charming, 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 guards	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 King	case
5	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fetch	mark
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	xcomp
9	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 thought	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	aux
13	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 Charming	acl
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 thought	advmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 speech	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 speech	nmod:poss
18	rash	rash	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 speech	compound
19	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 more	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 carried	cc
22	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carried	obj
24	off	off	ADP	_	22 carried	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 prison	case
26	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 cruelty	case
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cruelty	amod
29	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the King's guards				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fetch	to-infinitive	the King's guards not said here	Charming			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=Theme
3	think speech: other	past · perfect	Charming				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	carry off	past	the King's guards not said here	king	prison	with great cruelty	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to prison=Destination
5	speak		king				nom speech «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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