The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 85

We did not like to bring more with us, not knowing what your royal taste might be; but if it seems good to you to honour our ship with a visit, you might condescend to choose such things as were pleasing in your eyes.”

Who acts: We, royal taste, it, you, your · What happens: not like, bring, not know, be, seem, honour · To what, where: more, you, ship, such things, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, royal taste, it, you), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bring	mark
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 bring	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bring	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knowing	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 knowing	advmod
12	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 bring	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 be	obj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 taste	nmod:poss
15	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 taste	amod
16	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 be	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 be	aux
18	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 knowing	ccomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 condescend	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 condescend	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 seems	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seems	nsubj
23	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 condescend	advcl
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 seems	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 seems	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 honour	mark
28	honour	honour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 seems	ccomp
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ship	nmod:poss
30	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 honour	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 visit	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 visit	det
33	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 honour	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seems	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 condescend	nsubj
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 condescend	aux
37	condescend	condescend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 choose	mark
39	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 condescend	xcomp
40	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 things	amod
41	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 choose	obj
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 pleasing	mark
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 pleasing	aux
44	pleasing	please	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 choose	advcl
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 eyes	case
46	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 eyes	nmod:poss
47	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 pleasing	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	We					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	We not said here	more			with us	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent more=Theme
3	not know	gerund	We not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be	might	your royal taste					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
5	seem a condition, not said to happen	present	it		you		good property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	honour	to-infinitive		our ship			with a visit	tree rules
7	condescend	might	you					tree rules
8	choose	to-infinitive	you not said here	such things				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
9	please	past · progressive	you not said here			your eyes		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
10	taste		your					nom taste «cognition 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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