--- title: Diamonds were as plentiful as pebbles, and the gold and silver, the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Diamonds were as plentiful as pebbles, and the gold and silver, the beautiful dresses, the sweetmeats and pretty things that were everywhere quite amazed him; he thought to himself: “If the Princess consents to leave all this, and come with me to marry the King, he may think himself lucky!” Who acts --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/66/) [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/) / 66 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 66 Diamonds were as plentiful as pebbles, and the gold and silver, the beautiful dresses, the sweetmeats and pretty things that were everywhere quite amazed him; he thought to himself: “If the Princess consents to leave all this, and come with me to marry the King, he may think himself lucky!” **Who acts:** Diamonds, Hark, Princess · **What happens:** be, amaze, think, consent, leave, come · **To what, where:** pretty things, Hark, this, King · **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 (Diamonds, Hark, Princess), 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:pg503:28:66 # text = Diamonds were as plentiful as pebbles, and the gold and silver, the beautiful dresses, the sweetmeats and pretty things that were everywhere quite amazed him; he thought to himself: “If the Princess consents to leave all this, and come with me to marry the King, he may think himself lucky!” 1 Diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 as as ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 plentiful plentiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 dresses dress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sweetmeats sweetmeat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 25 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 27 advmod _ _ 26 quite quite ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 amazed amaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 : : PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 35 “ " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 If if SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 consents consent VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 advcl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 43 det:predet _ _ 43 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 47 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 obl _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 advcl _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 55 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 parataxis _ _ 57 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 56 obj _ _ 58 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Diamonds | | | | | as pebbles; plentiful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **amaze** | past · passive | | pretty things | | | | everywhere *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Hark | | Hark | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **consent** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the Princess | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | this | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | | 6 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | with Hark | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **marry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | the King | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | may | Hark | Hark | | | | lucky *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/67/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/)