The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 83

Charming was very much surprised by this answer, but he bowed low to the Princess, and begged her to accept the embroidered scarf and the tiny dog he had brought with him.

Who acts: answer, ambassador · What happens: surprise, bow, beg, accept, embroider, bring · To what, where: Charming, embroidered scarf, tiny dog

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 (answer, ambassador), 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	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	aux:pass
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 surprised	advmod
5	surprised	surprise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 answer	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 answer	det
8	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bowed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 bowed	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bowed	nsubj
12	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	parataxis
13	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bowed	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Princess	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 low	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 begged	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 begged	cc
19	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bowed	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 begged	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 accept	mark
22	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begged	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 scarf	det
24	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 scarf	amod
25	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 accept	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dog	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dog	det
28	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dog	amod
29	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 scarf	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 brought	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 brought	aux
32	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 dog	acl:relcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 brought	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	surprise	past · passive	this answer	Charming			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	bow	past	ambassador			low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	beg speech: request	past	ambassador not said here		Charming		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	accept not said to happen	to-infinitive	ambassador not said here	the embroidered scarf and the tiny dog			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarf=Theme
5	embroider	participle					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bring	past · perfect	ambassador	the tiny dog not said here		with dog	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=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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