The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 64

These three adventures were the only ones of any consequence that befell Charming upon his journey, and he made all the haste he could to reach the palace of the Princess Goldilocks.

Who acts: three adventures, that, Hark · What happens: be, befall, make, reach, journey · To what, where: only ones, Charming, haste, palace

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 (three adventures, that, Hark), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 adventures	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 adventures	nummod
3	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ones	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ones	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 consequence	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 consequence	det
10	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ones	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 befell	nsubj
12	befell	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ones	parataxis
13	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 befell	obj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 journey	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 journey	nmod:poss
16	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 befell	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 befell	conj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 haste	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 haste	det
23	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reach	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 reach	aux
26	to	to	PART	_	27 reach	mark
27	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 haste	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 palace	det
29	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reach	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 Goldilocks	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Goldilocks	det
32	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Goldilocks	compound
33	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 palace	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ones	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this three adventures	the only ones	of any consequence	tree rules
2	befall	past	that	Charming	upon Hark's journey	tree rules
3	make	past	Hark	all haste		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
4	reach	could	Hark	the palace of the Princess Goldilocks		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
5	journey		Hark			nom journey «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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