The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 108

“Oh, certainly,” answered the prince; “but, all the same, I would rather go and seek the land where there is no death at all.”

Who acts: prince, land · What happens: answer, go, seek, be · To what, where: death, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, land), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 Oh	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 same	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 same	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 same	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 but	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 same	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 same	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 answered	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
20	rather	rather	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 same	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seek	cc
23	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 land	det
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 death	nsubj
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 is	advmod
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 is	expl
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 death	cop
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 death	det
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seek	ccomp
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 all	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 death	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the prince			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go in a quote	would	the prince = prince			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seek in a quote	infinitive	the prince = prince not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	the land	no death	all	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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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