The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 99
Frisk, who was very small and could look closely into the water, cried out: “I see a golden carp coming.”
Who acts: Frisk, golden carp · What happens: be, look, cry out, see, come · To what, where: golden carp · 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, golden carp), 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 | Frisk | frisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 small | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 small | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 small | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 small | advmod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Frisk | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 look | cc |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | aux |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 small | conj |
| 10 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 9 look | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Frisk | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cried | compound:prt |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 carp | det |
| 22 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 carp | amod |
| 23 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 24 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 carp | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Frisk | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | could | Frisk not said here | into the water; closely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | Frisk | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present | Frisk | a golden carp | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer carp=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | gerund | a golden carp not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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