The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 49
As soon as Dame Carp felt the refreshing coolness of the water she sank down joyfully to the bottom of the river, then, swimming up to the bank quite boldly, she said:
Who acts: Dame · What happens: feel, refresh, sink down, swim up, say · To what, where: refreshing coolness, water, bank · 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 (Dame), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 swimming | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 felt | mark |
| 4 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | Carp | Carp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Dame | flat |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coolness | det |
| 8 | refreshing | refresh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 coolness | amod |
| 9 | coolness | coolness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coolness | nmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sank | nsubj |
| 14 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 water | acl:relcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 sank | advmod |
| 16 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 19 bottom | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 bottom | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bottom | det |
| 19 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 river | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 river | det |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bottom | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 swimming | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 swimming | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 swimming | punct |
| 26 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 said | advcl |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 swimming | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 bank | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bank | det |
| 30 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 swimming | obl |
| 31 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 32 boldly | advmod |
| 32 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 swimming | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 swimming | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 said | nsubj |
| 35 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Dame | the refreshing coolness of the water | to the bottom of the river | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coolness=Theme | |||
| 2 | refresh | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | sink down | past | Dame | the water not said here | down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | |||
| 4 | swim up | gerund | Dame not said here | the bank | then | boldly, soon property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bank=Destination | ||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Dame | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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