--- title: “If it hadn’t been for Charming,” she said to the King, “I should ne… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “If it hadn’t been for Charming,” she said to the King, “I should never have come here; you ought to be very much obliged to him, for he did the most impossible things and got me water from the Fountain of Beauty, so I can never grow old, and shall get prettier every year.” Who acts: city, Charming, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/177/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/) / 177 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 177 “If it hadn’t been for Charming,” she said to the King, “I should never have come here; you ought to be very much obliged to him, for he did the most impossible things and got me water from the Fountain of Beauty, so I can never grow old, and shall get prettier every year.” **Who acts:** city, Charming, king · **What happens:** have, not be, say, not come, oblige, do · **To what, where:** King, impossible things, water, Charming, Fountain · **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 (city, Charming, king), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:28:177 # text = “If it hadn’t been for Charming,” she said to the King, “I should never have come here; you ought to be very much obliged to him, for he did the most impossible things and got me water from the Fountain of Beauty, so I can never grow old, and shall get prettier every year.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Charming Charming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux _ _ 22 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 23 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 much much ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 40 advmod _ _ 40 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 44 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 from from ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Fountain Fountain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 Beauty Beauty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 52 so so ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 53 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 54 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 55 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 56 advmod _ _ 56 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 57 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 60 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ _ 61 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 62 prettier pretty ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 61 xcomp _ _ 63 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 64 det _ _ 64 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 61 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 ” " PUNCT '' _ 61 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | city | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | for Charming | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Charming | | the King | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | should · perfect | Charming | | | here | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **oblige** *in a quote* | ought · passive | Charming *not said here* | | king | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | past | king | the impossible things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 7 | **get** *in a quote* | past | king *not said here* | water | Charming | the Fountain of Beauty | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary water=Theme | | 8 | **not** **grow** *in a quote* | can | Charming | | | | | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **get** *in a quote* | shall | | | | | year | pretty *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/176/) - next →: [sentence 178](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/178/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/)