The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 87

“How am I to find a ring that fell into the river a month ago?” said he.

Who acts: dog, ring · What happens: find, fall, say · To what, where: ring, river · 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 (dog, 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 find	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 find	advmod
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 find	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ring	acl:relcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 month	det
15	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ago	obl:unmarked
16	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 fell	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	present	dog	a ring		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic
2	fall in a quote	past	a ring		into the river result; ago property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result
3	say speech: ask	past	dog			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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