The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 74
Be quick and give me my blue satin embroidered dress, and comb out my golden hair.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, give, embroider, comb out · To what, where: blue satin, me, golden hair
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 (you), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 quick | cop |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 give | cc |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 quick | conj |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 satin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 satin | amod |
| 8 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 dress | amod |
| 10 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 satin | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 comb | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 comb | cc |
| 13 | comb | comb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 comb | compound:prt |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hair | nmod:poss |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hair | amod |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comb | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | my blue satin and embroidered dress | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient satin=Theme | |||
| 3 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | comb out | infinitive | you not said here | my golden hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
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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