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title: Frisk, who was very small and could look closely into the water, cri… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Frisk, who was very small and could look closely into the water, cried out: “I see a golden carp coming.” Who acts: Frisk, golden carp. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 99

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Frisk, who was very small and could look closely into the water, cried out: “I see a golden carp coming.”

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**Who acts:** Frisk, golden carp · **What happens:** be, look, cry out, see, come · **To what, where:** golden carp · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Frisk, golden carp), 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:pg503:28:99
# text = Frisk, who was very small and could look closely into the water, cried out: “I see a golden carp coming.”
1	Frisk	frisk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	carp	carp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Frisk |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | could | Frisk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the water; closely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into water=Theme |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | Frisk |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Frisk | a golden carp |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer carp=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | a golden carp *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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