The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 46

When he had written it down he was looking round him, pleased to find himself in such a pretty place, when all at once he saw a great golden carp lying gasping and exhausted upon the grass.

Who acts: king, great golden carp · What happens: write down, look, find, see, lie, exhaust · To what, where: idea, king, pretty place, great golden carp, gasping

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, great golden carp), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 written	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 written	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 written	aux
4	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 written	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 written	compound:prt
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looking	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looking	aux
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 written	parataxis
10	round	round	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pleased	punct
13	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looking	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 find	mark
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 looking	advcl
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 find	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 place	case
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 place	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 place	det
20	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 place	amod
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 all	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 all	advmod
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 place	appos
25	at	at	SCONJ	_	28 saw	mark
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 saw	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 all	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 carp	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 carp	amod
31	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 carp	amod
32	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saw	obj
33	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 carp	acl
34	gasping	gasping	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lying	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 exhausted	cc
36	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 saw	conj
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 grass	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 grass	det
39	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 exhausted	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 written	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write down	past · perfect	king	idea			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	look	past · progressive	king			round harangue	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	king not said here	king	such pretty place		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
4	see	past	king	a great golden carp		once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer carp=Stimulus
5	lie	gerund	a great golden carp not said here	gasping			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gasping=Theme
6	exhaust	past	king not said here			upon the grass	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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