The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 21

“I should like to buy it—if it is not too dear,” said the young man; “it would be company for me.”

Who acts: young man, creature · What happens: like, buy, not be, say, be · To what, where: creature, company · 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 (young man, creature), 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	_	4 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 buy	mark
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 buy	obj
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 dear	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dear	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dear	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 dear	advmod
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 dear	advmod
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dear	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 dear	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 company	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 company	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 company	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 company	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 company	cop
26	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 company	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	should	the young man = man			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	buy not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the young man = man not said here	creature		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	creature		dear property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the young man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	would	creature	company	for the young man = man	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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