The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 67

Then he dressed himself carefully in rich brocade, with scarlet and white plumes, and threw a splendid embroidered scarf over his shoulder, and, looking as gay and as graceful as possible, he presented himself at the door of the palace, carrying in his arm a tiny pretty dog which he had bought on the way.

Who acts: Hark · What happens: dress, throw, embroider, look, present, carry · To what, where: Hark, rich brocade, splendid embroidered scarf, shoulder, door, tiny pretty dog

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dressed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 dressed	obj
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 dressed	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 brocade	case
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brocade	amod
8	brocade	brocade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 scarlet	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 scarlet	case
11	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brocade	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 plumes	cc
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plumes	amod
14	plumes	plume	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 scarlet	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 threw	cc
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 scarf	det
19	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 scarf	amod
20	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 scarf	amod
21	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obj
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 shoulder	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shoulder	nmod:poss
24	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looking	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 looking	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looking	punct
28	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dressed	advcl
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 gay	case
30	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 looking	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 graceful	cc
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 graceful	advmod
33	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 gay	conj
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 possible	mark
35	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 graceful	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 presented	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 presented	nsubj
38	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
39	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 presented	obj
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 door	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 door	det
42	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 presented	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 palace	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 palace	det
45	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 door	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 carrying	punct
47	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 presented	advcl
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 arm	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 arm	nmod:poss
50	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 carrying	obl
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 dog	det
52	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 dog	amod
53	pretty	pretty	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 dog	compound
54	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 carrying	obj
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 bought	nsubj:pass
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 bought	nsubj
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 bought	aux
58	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 dog	acl:relcl
59	on	on	ADP	_	61 way	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 way	det
61	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 bought	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past	Hark	Hark	rich brocade	then	carefully property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	throw	past	Hark not said here	a splendid embroidered scarf	Hark's shoulder			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent scarf=Theme over shoulder=Destination
3	embroider	participle						vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	gerund	Hark not said here				as gay	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	present	past	Hark	Hark	the door of the palace			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
6	carry	gerund	Hark not said here	a tiny pretty dog	Hark's arm			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Value in arm=Location
7	buy	past · perfect · passive		a tiny pretty dog	the way			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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