The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 43

It was on a Monday morning that he set out all alone upon his errand, thinking of nothing but how he could persuade the Princess Goldilocks to marry the King.

Who acts: bade, king · What happens: be, set out, think, persuade, marry · To what, where: Princess Goldilocks, 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 (bade, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 morning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 morning	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 morning	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 morning	det
5	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 morning	compound
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 set	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 set	nsubj
9	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 morning	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 set	compound:prt
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 alone	advmod
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 set	advmod
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 errand	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 errand	nmod:poss
15	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thinking	punct
17	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 set	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 nothing	case
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 thinking	obl
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 persuade	cc
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 persuade	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 persuade	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 persuade	aux
24	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 nothing	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Goldilocks	det
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Goldilocks	compound
27	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 persuade	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 marry	mark
29	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 persuade	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 marry	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	bade		on a Monday morning		tree rules
2	set out	past	king			upon king's errand; alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	gerund	king not said here			of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	persuade	could	king	the Princess Goldilocks			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldilocks=Patient
5	marry	to-infinitive	king not said here	the King			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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