The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 91
“My dear master, don’t despair; the luck may change, you are too good not to be happy.
Who acts: dear master, luck, you · What happens: do, change, be, not be · To what, where: despair · 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 (dear master, luck, you), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 master | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 master | amod |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 master | punct |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | n’t | n't | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 despair | det |
| 8 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 change | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 luck | det |
| 11 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 change | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 change | aux |
| 13 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 good | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 good | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 good | cop |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 good | advmod |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 do | conj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 happy | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 happy | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 happy | cop |
| 22 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 good | csubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | My dear master | n't despair | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent despair=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | change in a quote | may | the luck | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | to-infinitive | happy property | tree rules |
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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