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The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 9

Meanwhile, the ambassador arrived at the Princess’s palace and delivered his little message, but whether she happened to be cross that day, or whether the compliment did not please her, is not known.

Who acts: ambassador, princess, compliment · What happens: arrive, deliver, happen, be, not please, not know · To what, where: palace, little message, princess

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, princess, compliment), 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

advmodpunctdetnsubjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblccconjnmod:possamodobjpunctccmarknsubjparataxismarkcopxcompdetobl:unmarkedpunctccmarkdetnsubjauxadvmodconjobjpunctaux:passadvmodconjpunctrootMeanwhileADV,PUNCTtheDETambassadorNOUNarrivedVERBatADPtheDETPrincessPROPN’sPARTpalaceNOUNandCCONJdeliveredVERBhisPRONlittleADJmessageNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJwhetherSCONJshePRONhappenedVERBtoPARTbeAUXcrossADJthatDETdayNOUN,PUNCTorCCONJwhetherSCONJtheDETcomplimentNOUNdidAUXnotPARTpleaseVERBherPRON,PUNCTisAUXnotPARTknownVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MeanwhilemeanwhileADV_5 arrivedadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Meanwhilepunct
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 ambassadordet
4ambassadorambassadorNOUNNumber=Sing5 arrivednsubj
5arrivedarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6atatADP_10 palacecase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Princessdet
8PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing10 palacenmod:poss
9’s'sPART_8 Princesscase
10palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing5 arrivedobl
11andandCCONJ_12 deliveredcc
12delivereddeliverVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 arrivedconj
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 messagenmod:poss
14littlelittleADJDegree=Pos15 messageamod
15messagemessageNOUNNumber=Sing12 deliveredobj
16,,PUNCT_20 happenedpunct
17butbutCCONJ_20 happenedcc
18whetherwhetherSCONJ_20 happenedmark
19sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 happenednsubj
20happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 arrivedparataxis
21totoPART_23 crossmark
22bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf23 crosscop
23crosscrossADJDegree=Pos20 happenedxcomp
24thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem25 daydet
25daydayNOUNNumber=Sing23 crossobl:unmarked
26,,PUNCT_33 pleasepunct
27ororCCONJ_33 pleasecc
28whetherwhetherSCONJ_33 pleasemark
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 complimentdet
30complimentcomplimentNOUNNumber=Sing33 pleasensubj
31diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 pleaseaux
32notnotPARTPolarity=Neg33 pleaseadvmod
33pleasepleaseVERBVerbForm=Inf20 happenedconj
34hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 pleaseobj
35,,PUNCT_38 knownpunct
36isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin38 knownaux:pass
37notnotPARTPolarity=Neg38 knownadvmod
38knownknowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass33 pleaseconj
39..PUNCT_5 arrivedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1arrivepastthe ambassadorthe Princess's palacemeanwhile propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2deliverpastthe ambassador not said hereambassador's little messagevn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient
3happenpastprincessvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4isto-infinitiveprincess not said heredaycross propertytree rules
5not pleasepast · do-supportthe complimentprincessvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
6not knowpresent · passivethe compliment not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»

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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