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title: THE GOLD-SPINNERS THE TERRIBLE HEAD THE STORY OF PRETTY GOLDILOCKS T… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: THE GOLD-SPINNERS THE TERRIBLE HEAD THE STORY OF PRETTY GOLDILOCKS THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON THE WONDERFUL SHEEP LITTLE THUMB THE FORTY THIEVES HANSEL AND GRETTEL SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED THE GOOSE-GIRL TOADS AND DIAMONDS PRINCE DARLING BLUE BEARD TRUSTY JOHN THE BRAVE LITTLE TAILOR A VOYAGE TO LILL
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Fairy Book, sentence 5

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THE GOLD-SPINNERS THE TERRIBLE HEAD THE STORY OF PRETTY GOLDILOCKS THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON THE WONDERFUL SHEEP LITTLE THUMB THE FORTY THIEVES HANSEL AND GRETTEL SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED THE GOOSE-GIRL TOADS AND DIAMONDS PRINCE DARLING BLUE BEARD TRUSTY JOHN THE BRAVE LITTLE TAILOR A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT THE PRINCESS ON THE GLASS HILL THE STORY OF PRINCE AHMED AND THE FAIRY PARIBANOU THE HISTORY OF JACK THE GIANT-KILLER THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY THE RED ETIN

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:1:5
# text = THE GOLD-SPINNERS THE TERRIBLE HEAD THE STORY OF PRETTY GOLDILOCKS THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON THE WONDERFUL SHEEP LITTLE THUMB THE FORTY THIEVES HANSEL AND GRETTEL SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED THE GOOSE-GIRL TOADS AND DIAMONDS PRINCE DARLING BLUE BEARD TRUSTY JOHN THE BRAVE LITTLE TAILOR A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT THE PRINCESS ON THE GLASS HILL THE STORY OF PRINCE AHMED AND THE FAIRY PARIBANOU THE HISTORY OF JACK THE GIANT-KILLER THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY THE RED ETIN
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	GOLD	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	SPINNERS	spinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	TERRIBLE	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	HEAD	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	STORY	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	PRETTY	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	GOLDILOCKS	GOLDILOCKS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	HISTORY	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
15	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	WHITTINGTON	WHITTINGTON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	WONDERFUL	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	SHEEP	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	LITTLE	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	THUMB	THUMB	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	FORTY	forty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	THIEVES	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	HANSEL	HANSEL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	GRETTEL	GRETTEL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	SNOW	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	WHITE	WHITE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
31	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	ROSE	ROSE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	RED	RED	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
35	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	GOOSE	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	GIRL	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	TOADS	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
40	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	DIAMONDS	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
42	PRINCE	prince	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	DARLING	darling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
44	BLUE	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	BEARD	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	TRUSTY	trusty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
47	JOHN	JOHN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
48	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
49	BRAVE	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	LITTLE	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	TAILOR	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
52	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	VOYAGE	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	nsubj	_	_
54	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	LILLIPUT	LILLIPUT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	PRINCESS	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	nsubj	_	_
58	ON	on	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	GLASS	GLASS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	HILL	HILL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
62	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	STORY	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	nsubj	_	_
64	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	PRINCE	PRINCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	66	compound	_	_
66	AHMED	AHMED	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	_
67	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
68	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	FAIRY	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	conj	_	_
70	PARIBANOU	PARIBANOU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	66	flat	_	_
71	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
72	HISTORY	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	nsubj	_	_
73	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
74	JACK	JACK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	72	nmod	_	_
75	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	78	det	_	_
76	GIANT	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	78	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	76	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	KILLER	killer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	nsubj	_	_
79	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	81	det	_	_
80	BLACK	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	81	amod	_	_
81	BULL	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	nsubj	_	_
82	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	83	case	_	_
83	NORROWAY	NORROWAY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	81	nmod	_	_
84	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	86	det	_	_
85	RED	RED	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	86	flat	_	_
86	ETIN	ETIN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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