The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 47

“My son,” he said, “I have heard that you have declared that if I made you keeper of my treasures you would never lose so much as a gold pin.

Who acts: king, you, my · What happens: say, hear, declare, make, not lose, treasure · To what, where: keeper, you, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you, my), 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	_	3 son	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	aux
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 declared	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 declared	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 declared	aux
16	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 heard	ccomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 made	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 made	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 declared	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 made	obj
22	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 treasures	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 treasures	nmod:poss
25	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 keeper	nmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 lose	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 lose	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 lose	advmod
29	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 treasures	acl:relcl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lose	obj
32	as	as	ADP	_	35 pin	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pin	det
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pin	compound
35	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 much	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hear in a quote	present · perfect	king				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	declare speech: other in a quote	present · perfect	you				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	king	keeper of my treasures	you		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary keeper=Product
5	not lose in a quote	would	you	much		as a gold pin	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality
6	treasure in a quote		my				nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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