The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 75

Let somebody make me fresh garlands of flowers, and give me my high-heeled shoes and my fan, and tell them to sweep my great hall and my throne, for I want everyone to say I am really ‘Pretty Goldilocks.’”

Who acts: you, somebody, I, everyone · What happens: let, make, give, heel, tell, sweep · To what, where: somebody, fresh garlands, me, heeled shoes, shoes, great hall · 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 (you, somebody, I, everyone), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Let	obj
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 garlands	amod
6	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 flowers	case
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 garlands	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 give	cc
11	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shoes	nmod:poss
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heeled	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 high	punct
16	heeled	heel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 shoes	amod
17	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 give	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fan	cc
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fan	nmod:poss
20	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shoes	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	parataxis
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sweep	mark
26	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tell	xcomp
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hall	nmod:poss
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hall	amod
29	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sweep	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 throne	cc
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 throne	nmod:poss
32	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hall	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 want	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 want	case
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 want	nsubj
36	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	parataxis
37	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	36 want	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 say	mark
39	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 want	xcomp
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 Goldilocks	nsubj
41	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 Goldilocks	cop
42	really	really	ADV	_	45 Goldilocks	advmod
43	‘	'	PUNCT	_	45 Goldilocks	punct
44	Pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Goldilocks	amod
45	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 say	ccomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	somebody		tree rules
2	make	infinitive	somebody not said here	fresh garlands of flowers	me	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary garland=Product
3	give	infinitive	you not said here	my heeled shoes and my fan	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient shoe=Theme
4	heel	participle				vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive			shoes = shoe	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	sweep not said to happen	to-infinitive		my great hall and my throne		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory
7	want	present	I	everyone		tree rules
8	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	everyone not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	is a	present	I	Pretty Goldilocks		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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