The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 5

He was very rich and handsome, and when he heard all that was said about Pretty Goldilocks, though he had never seen her, he fell so deeply in love with her that he could neither eat nor drink.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, hear, say, not see, fall, eat · To what, where: that, princess, love · 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 (king), 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	4 rich	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 rich	advmod
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 handsome	cc
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rich	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 heard	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	parataxis
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 said	det:predet
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 said	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux:pass
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 heard	ccomp
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 Goldilocks	case
17	Pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Goldilocks	amod
18	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seen	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 seen	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 seen	advmod
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fell	nsubj
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	conj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 deeply	advmod
30	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	28 fell	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 love	case
32	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fell	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 eat	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 eat	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 eat	aux
38	neither	neither	ADV	_	39 eat	advmod
39	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 fell	advcl
40	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	41 drink	cc
41	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 eat	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	king			rich property	tree rules
2	be		king not said here				tree rules
3	hear	past	king				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past · passive		that		about Pretty Goldilocks	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	not see	past · perfect	king	princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
6	fall	past	king		love	with princess; deeply property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
7	eat	could	king			neither property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	drink	infinitive	king not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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