The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 71

“We saw him from the window of the garret where we were spinning flax, and we could do nothing but look at him as long as he was in sight.”

Who acts: We, name · What happens: see, spin, do, look, be · To what, where: name, window, flax, nothing

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 (We, 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	_	3 saw	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 garret	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garret	det
10	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 window	nmod
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 spinning	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 spinning	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 spinning	aux
14	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 garret	acl
15	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spinning	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 do	cc
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 do	obj
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 look	cc
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 do	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 look	obl
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 long	advmod
27	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 look	advmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	32 sight	case
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sight	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sight	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 sight	case
32	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 long	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	We	name	the window of the garret		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	spin in a quote	past · progressive	we	flax			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme
3	do in a quote	could	we	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	look in a quote	infinitive	we not said here			at name; long property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
5	is in a quote	past	name			as sight	tree rules

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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