The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 61
“It does not need many words to tell you how great a service you have done me.
Who acts: owl, many words, you · What happens: not need, tell, do · To what, where: many words, great service, you, Charming · 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 (owl, many words, 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 | _ | 5 need | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 need | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 need | advmod |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 need | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 need | xcomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 great | advmod |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 service | amod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 service | det |
| 14 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 service | acl:relcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 done | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need in a quote | present · do-support | owl | many words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | many words not said here | a great service | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient service=Topic | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect | you | a great service not said here | Charming | 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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