The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 26

“How can I have offended the King?

Who acts: prisoner · What happens: offend · To what, where: King

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 (prisoner), 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	_	6 offended	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 offended	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 offended	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 offended	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 offended	aux
6	offended	offend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 offended	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 offended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offend in a quote	can · perfect	prisoner	the King					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer

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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