The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 34

“You mocked me and my ambassador,” said the King, “and you said that if I had sent you for the Princess Goldilocks you would certainly have brought her back.”

Who acts: You, King · What happens: mock, say, send, bring back · To what, where: King, you, Goldilocks · 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 (You, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 mocked	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 mocked	nsubj
3	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 mocked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ambassador	cc
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ambassador	nmod:poss
7	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 me	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mocked	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 mocked	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 sent	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 sent	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 sent	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sent	aux
22	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 said	ccomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 sent	iobj
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 Goldilocks	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Goldilocks	det
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Goldilocks	compound
27	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 sent	obl
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 brought	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 brought	aux
30	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	32 brought	advmod
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 brought	aux
32	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 said	ccomp
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 brought	obj
34	back	back	ADV	_	32 brought	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mock in a quote	past	You	the King = king			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	send a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	the King = king		you	for the Princess Goldilocks	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	bring back in a quote	would · perfect	you		Goldilocks	certainly property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination

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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