The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 6
So he resolved to send an ambassador to ask her in marriage.
Who acts: king · What happens: resolve, send, ask · To what, where: ambassador, princess, marriage
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 resolved | nsubj |
| 3 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 send | mark |
| 5 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 resolved | xcomp |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ambassador | det |
| 7 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 send | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ask | mark |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 send | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ask | iobj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 marriage | case |
| 12 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ask | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send | to-infinitive | king not said here | a ambassador | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | king not said here | princess | marriage | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=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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