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title: But Goldilocks was so fond of Charming that she could not be happy u… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Goldilocks was so fond of Charming that she could not be happy unless he was near her, and she was always singing his praises. Who acts: Goldilocks, marriage. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 176

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But Goldilocks was so fond of Charming that she could not be happy unless he was near her, and she was always singing his praises.

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**Who acts:** Goldilocks, marriage · **What happens:** be, not be, sing, praise · **To what, where:** praises

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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 (Goldilocks, marriage), 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:pg503:28:176
# text = But Goldilocks was so fond of Charming that she could not be happy unless he was near her, and she was always singing his praises.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
14	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Goldilocks |  |  |  |  | of Charming; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | could | Goldilocks |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | marriage |  |  |  |  | near Charming | tree rules |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | Goldilocks | marriage's praises |  |  |  | always *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme |
| 5 | **praise** |  | marriage |  |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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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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