The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 59

The prince thought, “It would be excellent if here, in her very house, I could get the answer to her riddle; but I must be silent, on pain of death.”

Who acts: prince, house, princess · What happens: think, be, get, riddle, pain · To what, where: answer, house, death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, house, princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 excellent	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 excellent	punct
6	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 excellent	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 excellent	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 excellent	cop
9	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	ccomp
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 here	mark
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 excellent	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 house	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 house	nmod:poss
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 house	advmod
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 house	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 get	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 get	aux
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 answer	det
22	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 riddle	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 riddle	nmod:poss
25	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 answer	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 silent	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 silent	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 silent	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 silent	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 silent	cop
31	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pain	punct
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 pain	case
34	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 silent	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 death	case
36	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pain	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 silent	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 silent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the prince				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is in a quote	would	house			excellent property	tree rules
3	get in a quote	could	the prince = prince	the answer	princess's house	to princess's riddle	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
4	is in a quote	must	the prince = prince			silent property	tree rules
5	riddle in a quote		princess				nom riddle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
6	pain in a quote			death			nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient

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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