The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 27
I am his most faithful subject, and have done nothing against him.”
Who acts: I, faithful subject · What happens: be, do · To what, where: faithful subject, nothing
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 (I, faithful subject), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 subject | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 subject | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 subject | nmod:poss |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 faithful | advmod |
| 5 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 subject | amod |
| 6 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 done | cc |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 subject | acl:relcl |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 done | obj |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 nothing | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 subject | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 subject | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | king's faithful subject | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive · perfect | king's faithful subject not said here | nothing | against king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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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