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The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 42

But Charming said that he only wanted a good horse to ride, and the King, who was delighted at his being ready to start so promptly, gave him letters to the Princess, and bade him good speed.

Who acts: Charming, king, good horse, bade · What happens: say, want, ride, be, start, give · To what, where: good horse, letters, refusal · 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, king, good horse, bade), 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

ccnsubjmarknsubjadvmodccompdetamodobjmarkxcomppunctccdetnsubjpunctnsubjcopamodmarknmod:posscopadvclmarkxcompadvmodadvmodpunctconjiobjobjcasedetoblpunctccnsubjobjamodconjpunctrootButCCONJCharmingPROPNsaidVERBthatSCONJhePRONonlyADVwantedVERBaDETgoodADJhorseNOUNtoPARTrideVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETKingPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXdelightedADJatSCONJhisPRONbeingAUXreadyADJtoPARTstartVERBsoADVpromptlyADV,PUNCTgaveVERBhimPRONlettersNOUNtoADPtheDETPrincessNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbadeNOUNhimPRONgoodADJspeedNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_3 saidcc
2CharmingCharmingPROPNNumber=Sing3 saidnsubj
3saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thatthatSCONJ_7 wantedmark
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 wantednsubj
6onlyonlyADV_7 wantedadvmod
7wantedwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 saidccomp
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 horsedet
9goodgoodADJDegree=Pos10 horseamod
10horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing7 wantedobj
11totoPART_12 ridemark
12riderideVERBVerbForm=Inf7 wantedxcomp
13,,PUNCT_30 gavepunct
14andandCCONJ_30 gavecc
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 Kingdet
16KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing30 gavensubj
17,,PUNCT_20 delightedpunct
18whowhoPRONPronType=Rel20 delightednsubj
19wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 delightedcop
20delighteddelightedADJDegree=Pos16 Kingamod
21atatSCONJ_24 readymark
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 readynmod:poss
23beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part24 readycop
24readyreadyADJDegree=Pos20 delightedadvcl
25totoPART_26 startmark
26startstartVERBVerbForm=Inf24 readyxcomp
27sosoADV_28 promptlyadvmod
28promptlypromptlyADV_26 startadvmod
29,,PUNCT_16 Kingpunct
30gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 saidconj
31himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 gaveiobj
32lettersletterNOUNNumber=Plur30 gaveobj
33totoADP_35 Princesscase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 Princessdet
35PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing30 gaveobl
36,,PUNCT_41 speedpunct
37andandCCONJ_38 badecc
38badebadeNOUNNumber=Sing41 speednsubj
39himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 badeobj
40goodgoodADJDegree=Pos41 speedamod
41speedspeedNOUNNumber=Sing3 saidconj
42..PUNCT_3 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastCharmingvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2wantpastkinga good horsetree rules
3ride not said to happento-infinitivea good horse not said herevn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4ispastthe Kingdelighted propertytree rules
5isgerundthe King not said hereready propertytree rules
6startto-infinitivethe King not said herepromptly propertyvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7givepastthe Kinglettersrefusalto the Princessvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient letter=Theme
8speedbadetree rules

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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