The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 40
Charming replied that he was perfectly willing to go, and would set out the very next day.
Who acts: Charming, refusal · What happens: reply, be, go, set out · 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 (Charming, refusal), 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 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 willing | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 willing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 willing | cop |
| 6 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 7 willing | advmod |
| 7 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 willing | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 set | aux |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 next | advmod |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Charming | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | refusal | perfectly, willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | refusal not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set out | would | Charming not said here | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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