The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 62
I was caught; in a few minutes the fowlers would have been here--without your help I should have been killed.
Who acts: fowlers, your · What happens: catch, be, kill, help · To what, where: I
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 (fowlers, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | aux:pass |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 here | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 minutes | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 minutes | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 minutes | amod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 here | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fowlers | det |
| 10 | fowlers | fowler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 here | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 here | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 here | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 here | cop |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 caught | advmod |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 killed | punct |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 help | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 help | nmod:poss |
| 18 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 killed | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 killed | aux |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 killed | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 killed | aux:pass |
| 23 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 caught | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | I | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | would · perfect | the fowlers | minute | here property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | kill | should · perfect · passive | I | without your help | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | your | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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