The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 41
“But you must wait till I can get a grand escort for you,” said the King.
Who acts: you, King · What happens: wait, get, say · To what, where: grand escort · 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, King), 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 wait | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 wait | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wait | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 escort | det |
| 11 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 escort | amod |
| 12 | escort | escort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 get | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | must | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | can | the King = king | a grand escort | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent escort=Theme for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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