The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 69

“Charming,” said the Princess, “the name promises well; I have no doubt that he is good looking and fascinates everybody.”

Who acts: Charming, Princess, name · What happens: say, promise, have, look, fascinate · To what, where: doubt, everybody · 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 (Charming, Princess, name), 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	_	2 Charming	punct
2	Charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Charming	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Charming	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 promises	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 promises	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 promises	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 name	det
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promises	nsubj
12	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 promises	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 doubt	det
18	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 looking	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looking	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 looking	aux
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looking	amod
23	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 doubt	acl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fascinates	cc
25	fascinates	fascinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 have	conj
26	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 fascinates	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Charming			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	promise speech: promise in a quote	present	the Princess		well property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have in a quote	present	Charming	no doubt		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient
4	look in a quote	present · progressive	name	no doubt not said here		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme doubt=Attribute
5	fascinate in a quote	present	Charming not said here	everybody		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everybody=Experiencer

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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