The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 94

At the first glimmer of dawn Frisk began to jump about, and when he had waked Charming they went out together, first into the garden, and then down to the river’s brink, where they wandered up and down.

Who acts: Frisk, pats, dawn · What happens: begin, jump about, wake, go out, wander, glimmer · To what, where: first glimmer, Charming

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 (Frisk, pats, dawn), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 glimmer	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 glimmer	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 glimmer	amod
4	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 dawn	case
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glimmer	nmod
7	Frisk	Frisk	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 jump	mark
10	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 jump	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 waked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 waked	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 waked	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 waked	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 waked	aux
17	waked	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 went	advcl
18	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 waked	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 began	parataxis
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	together	together	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 garden	punct
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 garden	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 garden	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 garden	det
27	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 brink	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 brink	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 down	advmod
31	down	down	ADV	_	36 brink	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	36 brink	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 river	det
34	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 brink	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 river	case
36	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 wandered	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 wandered	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 wandered	nsubj
40	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 brink	acl:relcl
41	up	up	ADV	_	40 wandered	advmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 down	cc
43	down	down	ADV	_	41 up	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Frisk		the first glimmer of dawn	into the garden	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	jump about	to-infinitive	Frisk not said here			about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wake	past · perfect	Frisk	Charming			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent charming=Patient
4	go out	past	pats = pat			out, together property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wander	past	pats = pat				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	glimmer		dawn				nom glimmer «event intransitive»: of=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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