The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 39

“You know that I love Pretty Goldilocks as much as ever, her refusal has not made any difference to me; but I don’t know how to make her change her mind; I really should like to send you, to see if you can persuade her to marry me.”

Who acts: You, matter, Goldilocks · What happens: know, love, not make, not know, make, change · To what, where: Goldilocks, refusal, mind, you, matter · 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, matter, Goldilocks), 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 know	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 love	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 love	nsubj
6	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	ccomp
7	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	8 Goldilocks	advmod
8	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 love	obj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 love	obj
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 ever	case
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 much	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 refusal	nmod:poss
15	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj:pass
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 made	advmod
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 know	conj
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 difference	det
20	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 difference	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 know	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 know	nsubj
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 know	aux
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 know	advmod
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	conj
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 make	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 make	mark
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 know	ccomp
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 make	obj
33	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 make	xcomp
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mind	nmod:poss
35	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 change	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 like	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 like	nsubj
38	really	really	ADV	_	40 like	advmod
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 like	aux
40	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 send	mark
42	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 like	xcomp
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 send	iobj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 see	punct
45	to	to	PART	_	46 see	mark
46	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 send	conj
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 persuade	mark
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 persuade	nsubj
49	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 persuade	aux
50	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 see	advcl
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 persuade	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 marry	mark
53	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 persuade	xcomp
54	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 marry	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
56	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	You			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	love in a quote	present	matter	Goldilocks		tree rules
3	not make in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Goldilocks's refusal		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary difference=Product
4	not know in a quote	present · do-support	matter			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	make in a quote	to-infinitive		Goldilocks		tree rules
6	change in a quote	infinitive	Goldilocks not said here	Goldilocks's mind		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
7	like in a quote	should	matter			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	send not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	matter not said here		you	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
9	see in a quote	to-infinitive	matter not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	persuade a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	Goldilocks		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result
11	marry in a quote	to-infinitive	Goldilocks not said here	matter		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
12	refuse in a quote		Goldilocks			nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent
13	mind in a quote		Goldilocks			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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