The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 84

But she answered that she did not want any presents, and that he was to remember what she had just told him.

Who acts: Charming, ambassador · What happens: answer, not want, be, tell · To what, where: presents, ambassador · 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, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 want	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 want	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 want	advmod
8	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 presents	det
10	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 want	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remember	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 remember	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 remember	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 remember	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 remember	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 remember	mark
17	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	conj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 told	obj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 told	aux
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 told	advmod
22	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 remember	ccomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Charming				tree rules
2	not want	past · do-support	Charming	any presents			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot present=Theme
3	is	past	ambassador			remember property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	Charming		ambassador		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

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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