The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 80

“Sir Charming,” answered she, “all the reasons you have given me are very good ones, and I assure you that I should have more pleasure in obliging you than anyone else, but you must know that a month ago as I was walking by the river with my ladies I took off my glove, and as I did so a ring that I was wearing slipped off my finger and rolled into the water.

Who acts: Charming, princess, reasons, ring · What happens: answer, give, be, assure, have, oblige · To what, where: princess, reasons, Charming, good ones, more pleasure, glove · 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 (Charming, princess, reasons, ring), 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	_	6 answered	punct
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Charming	nmod:desc
3	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Charming	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Charming	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ones	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 ones	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 reasons	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 reasons	det
12	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ones	nsubj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 given	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 given	aux
15	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 reasons	acl:relcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 given	iobj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ones	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 good	advmod
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ones	amod
20	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 answered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 assure	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 assure	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 assure	nsubj
24	assure	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	parataxis
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 assure	iobj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 have	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 assure	ccomp
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 pleasure	amod
31	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
32	in	in	SCONJ	_	33 obliging	mark
33	obliging	oblige	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 have	advcl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 obliging	obj
35	than	than	ADP	_	36 anyone	case
36	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 obliging	obl
37	else	else	ADV	_	36 anyone	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 know	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 know	cc
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 know	nsubj
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 know	aux
42	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 assure	conj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 ago	mark
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 month	det
45	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ago	obl:unmarked
46	ago	ago	ADV	_	42 know	ccomp
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 walking	mark
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 walking	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 walking	aux
50	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 took	advcl
51	by	by	ADP	_	53 river	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 river	det
53	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 walking	obl
54	with	with	ADP	_	56 ladies	case
55	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 ladies	nmod:poss
56	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 walking	obl
57	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 took	nsubj
58	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 know	parataxis
59	off	off	ADP	_	58 took	compound:prt
60	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 glove	nmod:poss
61	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 took	obj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 did	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 did	cc
64	as	as	SCONJ	_	66 did	mark
65	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	66 did	nsubj
66	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 took	conj
67	so	so	ADV	_	66 did	advmod
68	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 ring	det
69	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 did	obj
70	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	73 wearing	nsubj
71	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	73 wearing	nsubj
72	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	73 wearing	aux
73	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	69 ring	acl:relcl
74	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	73 wearing	xcomp
75	off	off	ADP	_	74 slipped	compound:prt
76	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	77 finger	nmod:poss
77	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 slipped	obj
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	79 rolled	cc
79	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	74 slipped	conj
80	into	into	ADP	_	82 water	case
81	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	82 water	det
82	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 rolled	obl
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Charming Sir		princess			tree rules
2	give in a quote	present · perfect	princess	all reasons not said here	Charming Sir = charming			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	all reasons	good ones				tree rules
4	assure in a quote	present	Charming Sir = charming		princess			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	have in a quote	should	Charming Sir = charming	more pleasure				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient
6	oblige in a quote	gerund	Charming Sir = charming not said here	princess			than anyone	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
7	know in a quote	must	princess					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	walk in a quote	past · progressive	Charming Sir = charming				by the river; with my ladies	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Trajectory
9	take off in a quote	past	Charming Sir = charming	my glove				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Theme
10	do in a quote	past	Charming Sir = charming	a ring				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality
11	wear in a quote	past · progressive	a ring					tree rules
12	slip off in a quote	participle	a ring not said here	my finger				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
13	roll in a quote	participle	a ring not said here			the water		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination

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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