The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 48

Charming had pity upon her, and, though he couldn’t help thinking that she would have been very nice for dinner, he picked her up gently and put her back into the water.

Who acts: Charming, king · What happens: have, not help, think, be, pick up, put back · To what, where: pity, Charming, water · 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:2144): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 picked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 picked	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 help	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 help	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 help	advmod
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 picked	advcl
14	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 help	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 nice	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 nice	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 nice	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 nice	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 nice	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 nice	advmod
21	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thinking	ccomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 dinner	case
23	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nice	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 picked	nsubj
26	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 picked	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 picked	compound:prt
29	gently	gently	ADV	_	26 picked	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 put	cc
31	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 picked	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 put	obj
33	back	back	ADV	_	31 put	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 water	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 water	det
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Charming	pity			upon princess	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
2	not help	could	king					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	think speech: other not said to happen	gerund	king not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	would · perfect	Charming				for dinner; nice property	tree rules
5	pick up	past	king	Charming			gently property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
6	put back	past	king not said here		Charming	the water		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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