The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 95

“Dear me, I have nothing of any importance to tell you,” said the old man, “and I am sure we should never have made so bold as to trouble you at all if it hadn’t been for the youngest of our two sons here.”

Who acts: old man, we, history · What happens: have, tell, say, be, not make · To what, where: nothing, you, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, we, history), 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	_	16 said	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 have	advcl
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Dear	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 have	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 importance	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 importance	det
10	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nothing	acl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sure	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 sure	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sure	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 sure	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sure	cop
25	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	conj
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 made	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 made	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 made	advmod
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 made	aux
30	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 sure	ccomp
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 bold	advmod
32	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 made	xcomp
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 trouble	case
34	to	to	PART	_	35 trouble	mark
35	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bold	obl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 made	obl
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 all	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 made	obl
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 youngest	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 youngest	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 youngest	aux
42	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 youngest	advmod
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 youngest	cop
44	for	for	ADP	_	46 youngest	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 youngest	det
46	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 made	xcomp
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 sons	case
48	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 sons	nmod:poss
49	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 sons	nummod
50	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 youngest	nmod
51	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 sons	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the old man = man	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	the old man = man not said here	nothing not said here	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	the old man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	the old man = man				sure property	tree rules
5	not make in a quote	should · perfect	we	you		all	bold property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	history				of our two sons; young property	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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