The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 97
Then he walked on and the voice called again: “Charming, Charming!”
Who acts: Frisk · What happens: walk on, call · To what, where: voice · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 voice | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 voice | acl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 called | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Charming | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Charming | punct |
| 12 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Charming | punct |
| 14 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Charming | appos |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Charming | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Charming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | Frisk | the voice | then | Charming obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | call | participle | the voice not said here | again | 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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