--- title: Let somebody make me fresh garlands of flowers, and give me my high-… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Let somebody make me fresh garlands of flowers, and give me my high-heeled shoes and my fan, and tell them to sweep my great hall and my throne, for I want everyone to say I am really ‘Pretty Goldilocks.’” Who acts: you, somebody, I, everyone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, somebody, I, everyone), 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:pg503:28:75 # text = Let somebody make me fresh garlands of flowers, and give me my high-heeled shoes and my fan, and tell them to sweep my great hall and my throne, for I want everyone to say I am really ‘Pretty Goldilocks.’” 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 somebody somebody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 garlands garland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 14 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 heeled heel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 sweep sweep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 37 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 36 obj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 41 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 42 really really ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 43 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 Pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 Goldilocks Goldilocks PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | somebody | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | infinitive | somebody *not said here* | fresh garlands of flowers | me | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary garland=Product | | 3 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my heeled shoes and my fan | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient shoe=Theme | | 4 | **heel** | participle | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | shoes *= shoe* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **sweep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | my great hall and my throne | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory | | 7 | **want** | present | I | everyone | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** | present | I | Pretty Goldilocks | | | | | tree rules | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/76/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/)