The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 4
Now one of her neighbors was a young king who was not married.
Who acts: one · What happens: be, not marry · To what, where: young king
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 (one), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 king | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 neighbors | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 5 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 king | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 king | amod |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 married | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 married | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 married | advmod |
| 13 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 king | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | one of princess's neighbors | a young king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not marry | past · passive | a young king | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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