The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 50
“I thank you, Charming, for the kindness you have done me.
Who acts: Dame, you · What happens: thank, do · To what, where: you, kindness, Dame
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, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | nsubj |
| 3 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Charming | punct |
| 6 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thank | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kindness | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 kindness | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kindness | det |
| 10 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thank | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 kindness | acl:relcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 done | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | Dame | you | for the kindness; Charming vocative | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for kindness=Attribute | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · perfect | you | the kindness not said here | Dame | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
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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