--- title: When he had written it down he was looking round him, pleased to fin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When he had written it down he was looking round him, pleased to find himself in such a pretty place, when all at once he saw a great golden carp lying gasping and exhausted upon the grass. Who acts: king, great golden carp. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Gol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/46/) [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/) / 46 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 46 When he had written it down he was looking round him, pleased to find himself in such a pretty place, when all at once he saw a great golden carp lying gasping and exhausted upon the grass. **Who acts:** king, great golden carp · **What happens:** write down, look, find, see, lie, exhaust · **To what, where:** idea, king, pretty place, great golden carp, gasping 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 (king, great 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:28:46 # text = When he had written it down he was looking round him, pleased to find himself in such a pretty place, when all at once he saw a great golden carp lying gasping and exhausted upon the grass. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 down down ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 10 round round ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 16 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 21 det:predet _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 appos _ _ 25 at at SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 28 advmod _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 carp carp NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 33 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 acl _ _ 34 gasping gasping NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 exhausted exhaust VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 37 upon upon ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write down** | past · perfect | king | idea | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **look** | past · progressive | king | | | | | round harangue | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=Theme | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | king | | such pretty place | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | | 4 | **see** | past | king | a great golden carp | | | | once *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer carp=Stimulus | | 5 | **lie** | gerund | a great golden carp *not said here* | gasping | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gasping=Theme | | 6 | **exhaust** | past | king *not said here* | | | | | upon the grass | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/47/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/)