The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 16

“The honour will be all the higher if we gain the day,” answered Rosald; but Geirald would listen to nothing, and only declared that he did not care about honour, and would rather be alive than have every honour in the world heaped upon him.

Who acts: honour, we, Rosald, Geirald · What happens: be, gain, answer, listen, declare, not care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honour, we, Rosald, Geirald), 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	_	8 higher	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 honour	det
3	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 higher	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 higher	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 higher	cop
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 higher	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 higher	det
8	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 answered	nsubj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 gain	mark
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 gain	nsubj
11	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 higher	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gain	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gain	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 higher	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 answered	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 listen	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 listen	cc
20	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 listen	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 listen	aux
22	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 answered	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 nothing	case
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 listen	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 declared	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 declared	cc
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 declared	advmod
28	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 listen	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 care	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 care	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 care	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 care	advmod
33	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 declared	ccomp
34	about	about	ADP	_	35 honour	case
35	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 care	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 alive	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 alive	cc
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 alive	aux
39	rather	rather	ADV	_	41 alive	advmod
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 alive	cop
41	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 listen	conj
42	than	than	SCONJ	_	43 have	mark
43	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 alive	advcl
44	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	45 honour	det
45	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 heaped	nsubj
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 world	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 world	det
48	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 honour	nmod
49	heaped	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 have	ccomp
50	upon	upon	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 heaped	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	the honour		high property	tree rules
2	gain a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	we	day		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	answer speech: assert	past	Rosald			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	listen	would	Geirald		to nothing	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nothing=Theme
5	declare speech: other	past	Geirald not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not care	past · do-support	Geirald		about honour	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about honour=Stimulus
7	is	would	Geirald not said here		alive property	tree rules
8	have	present	Geirald not said here			tree rules
9	heap	past	every honour in the world		upon Geirald	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon he=Destination

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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