The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 56

“Charming,” said he, “it was very generous of you to rescue a poor raven; I am not ungrateful, some day I will repay you.”

Who acts: Charming, raven · What happens: say, be, rescue, not be, repay · To what, where: poor raven, you · 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, raven), 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	_	2 Charming	punct
2	Charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Charming	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Charming	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 generous	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 generous	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 generous	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 generous	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 generous	advmod
12	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 generous	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 rescue	mark
16	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 generous	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 raven	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 raven	amod
19	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rescue	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 ungrateful	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ungrateful	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ungrateful	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 ungrateful	advmod
24	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 repay	punct
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 repay	obl:unmarked
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 repay	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 repay	aux
30	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ungrateful	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 repay	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Charming					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	past	raven				of you; generous property	tree rules
3	rescue in a quote	to-infinitive	raven not said here	a poor raven				vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Theme
4	not is in a quote	present	Charming				ungrateful property	tree rules
5	repay in a quote	future	Charming		you	day		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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