The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 32
And then he opened the tower door and called to Charming, who came very sadly and kissed the King’s hand, saying:
Who acts: king, Charming · What happens: open, call, come, kiss, say · To what, where: tower door, hand · 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, Charming), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 opened | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 opened | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 6 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | compound |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 called | cc |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 opened | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Charming | case |
| 11 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Charming | acl:relcl |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 sadly | advmod |
| 16 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kissed | cc |
| 18 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 King | case |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kissed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saying | punct |
| 24 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 kissed | advcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | king | the tower door | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | king not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Charming | sadly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kiss | past | Charming not said here | the King's hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | Charming not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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