The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 86

But the prince said that this plan would not be right, and that he would go himself, and would answer the riddle.

Who acts: prince, plan · What happens: say, not be, go, answer · To what, where: Prince, riddle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, plan), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 right	mark
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 plan	det
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 right	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 right	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 right	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 go	cc
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 go	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 answer	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 answer	cc
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 answer	aux
22	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 riddle	det
24	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 answer	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is	would	this plan		right property	tree rules
3	go	would	Prince	Prince		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	would	Prince not said here	the riddle		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent riddle=Eventuality

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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