The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 33
“What have I done, sire, to deserve this cruel treatment?”
Who acts: Charming · What happens: do, deserve · To what, where: sire, cruel treatment
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 done | obj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sire | punct |
| 7 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 deserve | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 deserve | mark |
| 10 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | advcl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 treatment | det |
| 12 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 treatment | amod |
| 13 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deserve | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect | Charming | sire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deserve in a quote | to-infinitive | Charming not said here | this cruel treatment | tree rules |
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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