The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 93

But Charming only gave him two little pats and said nothing, and very soon he fell asleep.

Who acts: Charming, master · What happens: give, say, fall · To what, where: two little pats, master, nothing · 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, master), 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	_	4 gave	cc
2	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pats	nummod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pats	amod
8	pats	pat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fell	cc
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 soon	advmod
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 fell	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fell	nsubj
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fell	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	Charming	two little pats	master		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pat=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Charming not said here	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	fall	past	master			asleep, soon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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