The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 52

So saying, she sank down into the water again, leaving Charming greatly astonished at her politeness.

Who acts: Charming · What happens: say, sink down, leave, astonish · To what, where: water, politeness · 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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sank	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sank	nsubj
5	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saying	ccomp
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 sank	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sank	obl
10	again	again	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 leaving	punct
12	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saying	conj
13	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 astonished	nsubj
14	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	15 astonished	advmod
15	astonished	astonish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 leaving	ccomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 politeness	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 politeness	nmod:poss
18	politeness	politeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 astonished	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund			again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sink down	past	Charming	the water		down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	leave	gerund					tree rules
4	astonish	past	Charming	Charming's politeness		greatly property	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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