The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 76

You can imagine how all her maids scurried this way and that to make the Princess ready, and how in their haste they knocked their heads together and hindered each other, till she thought they would never have done.

Who acts: You, maids, Goldilocks · What happens: imagine, scurry, make, knock, hinder, think · To what, where: way, Princess, heads, haste, each · 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, maids, Goldilocks), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 imagine	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 scurried	advmod
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 maids	nmod:poss
7	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scurried	nsubj
8	scurried	scurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	advcl
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scurried	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 that	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 way	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 scurried	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 make	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knocked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knocked	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 knocked	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 haste	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 haste	nmod:poss
23	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knocked	obl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knocked	nsubj
25	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	parataxis
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heads	nmod:poss
27	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 knocked	obj
28	together	together	ADV	_	25 knocked	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hindered	cc
30	hindered	hinder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 knocked	conj
31	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	30 hindered	obj
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 each	fixed
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thought	punct
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 thought	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thought	nsubj
36	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hindered	conj
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 done	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 done	aux
39	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 done	advmod
40	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 done	aux
41	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 thought	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	imagine	can	You				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	scurry	past	Goldilocks's maids	this way		all property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location way=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	Goldilocks's maids not said here	the Princess		ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset princess=Product
4	knock	past	maids = maid	maids's heads	maids's haste	together property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme in haste=Destination
5	hinder	past	maids = maid not said here	each			vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer each=Eventuality
6	think speech: other	past	Goldilocks				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	not do	would · perfect	maids = maid				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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