Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 50

‘Your seeing her would have been of no use,’ said the thief, ‘if I had not taken her away from the dragon; therefore she ought to be mine.’

Who acts: Your, princess, thief, I · What happens: see, have, say, not take away, be · To what, where: princess, mine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Your, princess, thief, I), 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 seeing	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 seeing	nsubj
3	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seeing	obj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 seeing	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seeing	xcomp
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 have	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 use	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 use	det
10	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 been	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 seeing	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 seeing	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thief	det
15	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 taken	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 taken	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 taken	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 taken	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 taken	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 taken	advmod
22	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 taken	obj
24	away	away	ADV	_	22 taken	advmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 dragon	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dragon	det
27	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taken	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 ought	punct
29	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	31 ought	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ought	nsubj
31	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	34 mine	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 mine	cop
34	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 ought	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	would	Your	princess		tree rules
2	have	infinitive	princess not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the thief			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not take away a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	princess	from the dragon; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Theme from dragon=Initial_Location
5	is a	to-infinitive	the thief not said here	mine		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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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