The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 85

When he got back to his lodging he went to bed without eating any supper, and his little dog, who was called Frisk, couldn’t eat any either, but came and lay down close to him.

Who acts: ambassador, little dog · What happens: get back, go, eat, call, not eat, come · To what, where: bed, supper, little dog, any · 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 (ambassador, little dog), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lodging	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lodging	nmod:poss
7	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 bed	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 eating	mark
13	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 went	advcl
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 supper	det
15	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eating	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 eat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 eat	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 dog	nmod:poss
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dog	amod
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eat	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 called	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 called	aux:pass
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 dog	acl:relcl
25	Frisk	frisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dog	punct
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 eat	aux
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 eat	advmod
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	parataxis
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 eat	obj
31	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 eat	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 came	cc
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lay	cc
36	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 came	conj
37	down	down	ADV	_	36 lay	advmod
38	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lay	xcomp
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 close	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get back	past	ambassador			to ambassador's lodging result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to lodging=Result
2	go	past	ambassador		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
3	eat	gerund	ambassador not said here	any supper			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
4	call	past · passive		ambassador's little dog			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	not eat	could	ambassador's little dog	any		either property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient
6	come	past					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	lie down	past				close, down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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