The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 38
So he took Charming back to the palace with him, and after seeing that he had a very good supper he said to him:
Who acts: matter · What happens: take back, see, have, say · To what, where: Charming, palace, good supper, king · 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 (matter), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 palace | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seeing | cc |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 seeing | mark |
| 14 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seeing | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 supper | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 good | advmod |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 supper | amod |
| 21 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 supper | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | past | matter | Charming | the palace with king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent charming=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | matter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | past | matter | a good supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | matter | a good supper not said here | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent supper=Topic to he=Recipient |
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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