The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 35
“It is quite true, sire,” replied Charming; “I should have drawn such a picture of you, and represented your good qualities in such a way, that I am certain the Princess would have found you irresistible.
Who acts: treatment, Charming · What happens: be, reply, draw, represent, find · To what, where: picture, good qualities, Princess · 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 (treatment, 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 true | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 true | advmod |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sire | punct |
| 7 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 true | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 drawn | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 drawn | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 drawn | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 drawn | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 drawn | aux |
| 17 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 replied | advcl |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 picture | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 picture | det |
| 20 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drawn | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 picture | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 represented | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 represented | cc |
| 25 | represented | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | parataxis |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 qualities | nmod:poss |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 qualities | amod |
| 28 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 represented | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 way | case |
| 30 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 way | det:predet |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 way | det |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 represented | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 certain | punct |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 certain | mark |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 certain | nsubj |
| 36 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 certain | cop |
| 37 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 represented | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Princess | det |
| 39 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 found | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 found | aux |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 found | aux |
| 42 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 certain | parataxis |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 found | obj |
| 44 | irresistible | irresistible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 found | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | treatment | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Charming | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | draw in a quote | should · perfect | Charming | such picture of you | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | ||||
| 4 | represent in a quote | past | your good qualities | in such way | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot quality=Theme in way=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Charming | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | find in a quote | would · perfect · passive | the Princess | irresistible property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme you=Attribute |
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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