The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 95
Charming was thinking sadly of having to go back unsuccessful when he heard someone calling: “Charming, Charming!”
Who acts: Charming, Frisk · What happens: think, have, go back, hear, call · To what, where: Charming, someone · 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, Frisk), 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 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | aux |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 6 having | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 having | mark |
| 6 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thinking | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 having | xcomp |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | unsuccessful | unsuccessful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 go | xcomp |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 heard | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 having | advcl |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 heard | obj |
| 15 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 someone | acl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Charming | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Charming | punct |
| 18 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thinking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Charming | punct |
| 20 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Charming | appos |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 Charming | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | Charming | Charming | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Charming not said here | sadly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go back | to-infinitive | Charming not said here | unsuccessful property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | Frisk | someone | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | call | gerund | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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