The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 45
One day when he had started at the very earliest dawn, and was riding over a great meadow, he suddenly had a capital idea, and, springing from his horse, he sat down under a willow tree which grew by a little river.
Who acts: king, willow tree · What happens: start, ride, have, spring, sit down, grow · To what, where: great meadow, capital idea, willow tree
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, willow tree), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 started | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 started | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | aux |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 dawn | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dawn | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 earliest | advmod |
| 10 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 dawn | amod |
| 11 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 riding | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 riding | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 riding | aux |
| 15 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 started | advcl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 meadow | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 meadow | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 meadow | amod |
| 19 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 riding | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 22 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 23 had | advmod |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 idea | det |
| 25 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 idea | compound |
| 26 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sat | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sat | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 springing | punct |
| 30 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 sat | advcl |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 horse | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 horse | nmod:poss |
| 33 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 springing | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 springing | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 sat | nsubj |
| 36 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 had | conj |
| 37 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 sat | compound:prt |
| 38 | under | under | ADP | _ | 41 tree | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 tree | det |
| 40 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 tree | compound |
| 41 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sat | obl |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 grew | nsubj |
| 43 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 tree | acl:relcl |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 river | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 river | det |
| 46 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 river | amod |
| 47 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 grew | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past · perfect | king | dawn; day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ride | past · progressive | king not said here | a great meadow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over meadow=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | have | past | king | a capital idea | suddenly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | |||
| 4 | spring | gerund | king not said here | from king's horse | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | sit down | past | king | a willow tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 6 | grow | past | a willow tree | by a little river | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Location |
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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