The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 44

He had a writing-book in his pocket, and whenever any happy thought struck him he dismounted from his horse and sat down under the trees to put it into the harangue which he was preparing for the Princess, before he forgot it.

Who acts: king, happy thought, harangue · What happens: have, strike, dismount, sit down, put, prepare · To what, where: writing book, pocket, king, trees, thought, harangue

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 (king, happy thought, harangue), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
4	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 writing	punct
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pocket	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pocket	nmod:poss
9	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dismounted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dismounted	cc
12	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 struck	advmod
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 thought	det
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thought	amod
15	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 struck	nsubj
16	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dismounted	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 struck	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dismounted	nsubj
19	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 horse	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 horse	nmod:poss
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dismounted	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sat	cc
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dismounted	conj
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 sat	compound:prt
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 trees	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 trees	det
28	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sat	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 put	mark
30	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sat	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 put	obj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 harangue	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 harangue	det
34	harangue	harangue	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 preparing	nsubj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 preparing	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 preparing	aux
38	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 harangue	acl:relcl
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 Princess	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Princess	det
41	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 preparing	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 forgot	punct
43	before	before	SCONJ	_	45 forgot	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 forgot	nsubj
45	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 preparing	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 forgot	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	king	a writing book	king's pocket		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient
2	strike	past	any happy thought	king		whenever property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
3	dismount	past	king			from king's horse	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent from horse=Co-Patient
4	sit down	past	king not said here		the trees		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
5	put	to-infinitive	king not said here	thought	the harangue		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
6	prepare	past · progressive	the harangue			for the Princess	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for princess=Beneficiary
7	forget	past	king	thought			tree 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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