The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 8
After he had started nothing else was talked of at Court, and the King felt so sure that the Princess would consent that he set his people to work at pretty dresses and splendid furniture, that they might be ready by the time she came.
Who acts: king, Princess, people · What happens: start, talk, feel, consent, set, work · To what, where: nothing, people, time
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 (king, Princess, people), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 started | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 started | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | aux |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 talked | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 nothing | advmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 talked | aux:pass |
| 8 | talked | talk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 started | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Court | case |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Court | case |
| 11 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 talked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 felt | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 sure | advmod |
| 18 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 felt | xcomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 consent | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Princess | det |
| 21 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 consent | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 consent | aux |
| 23 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sure | ccomp |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 set | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 set | nsubj |
| 26 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 consent | ccomp |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 people | nmod:poss |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 set | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 work | mark |
| 30 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 set | advcl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 dresses | case |
| 32 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 dresses | amod |
| 33 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 work | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 furniture | cc |
| 35 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 furniture | amod |
| 36 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dresses | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ready | punct |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 ready | mark |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 ready | nsubj |
| 40 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 ready | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 ready | cop |
| 42 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 felt | advcl |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 time | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 time | det |
| 45 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ready | obl |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 came | nsubj |
| 47 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 time | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past · perfect | king | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk | past · passive | nothing | of Court | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | the King | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | consent | would | the Princess | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | set | past | king | king's people | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient people=Result | ||||
| 6 | work | to-infinitive | king not said here | at pretty dresses and splendid furniture | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dress=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | might | people | time | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | come | past | princess | the time not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme |
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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