The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 81
As I valued it more than my kingdom, you may imagine how vexed I was at losing it, and I vowed to never listen to any proposal of marriage unless the ambassador first brought me back my ring.
Who acts: I, you, ambassador, marriage · What happens: value, imagine, vex, lose, vow, not listen · To what, where: ring, me
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 (I, you, ambassador, marriage), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 valued | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 valued | nsubj |
| 3 | valued | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 imagine | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 valued | obj |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 valued | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 kingdom | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 valued | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 imagine | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 imagine | aux |
| 12 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 vexed | advmod |
| 14 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 imagine | xcomp |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 losing | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 losing | aux |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 losing | case |
| 18 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 vexed | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 losing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 vowed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 vowed | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 vowed | nsubj |
| 23 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 imagine | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 listen | mark |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 listen | advmod |
| 26 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 vowed | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 proposal | case |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 proposal | det |
| 29 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 listen | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 marriage | case |
| 31 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 proposal | nmod |
| 32 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 36 brought | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ambassador | det |
| 34 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 brought | nsubj |
| 35 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 brought | advmod |
| 36 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 listen | advcl |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 brought | obj |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 brought | advmod |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 ring | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 brought | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | value | past | I | ring | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | imagine | may | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | vex | participle | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | lose | past · progressive | I | ring | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | vow | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not listen not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | to any proposal of marriage | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to proposal=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bring back a condition, not said to happen | past | the ambassador | my ring | me | first property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination ring=Theme | ||
| 8 | propose | marriage | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: of=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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