The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 95

But she laughed, and said she had a finer throne of her own, if she wanted to sit on it, and that she was free to please herself, and would have no husband but the boy whom she would never have seen except for the king himself.

Who acts: feeling · What happens: laugh, say, have, want, sit, be · To what, where: finer throne, throne, feeling, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feeling), 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	_	3 laughed	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 throne	det
10	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 throne	amod
11	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 own	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 own	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 throne	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wanted	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 wanted	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sit	mark
20	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wanted	xcomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sit	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 free	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 free	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 free	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 free	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 free	cop
28	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wanted	xcomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 please	mark
30	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 free	advcl
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 please	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 have	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 have	cc
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 have	aux
35	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laughed	conj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 husband	det
37	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 have	obj
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 boy	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 boy	det
40	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 husband	conj
41	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 seen	obj
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 seen	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 seen	aux
44	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	46 seen	advmod
45	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 seen	aux
46	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 husband	acl:relcl
47	except	except	ADP	_	50 king	case
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 king	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 king	det
50	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 seen	obl
51	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	50 king	nmod:unmarked
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	feeling				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	feeling not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	feeling	a finer throne of feeling's own			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Patient
4	want a condition, not said to happen	past	feeling				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	feeling not said here		throne		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location
6	is not said to happen	past	feeling			free property	tree rules
7	please	to-infinitive	feeling not said here	feeling			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
8	have	would	feeling not said here	no husband but the boy			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient
9	not see	would · perfect	feeling	no husband but the boy		except the king boy	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus

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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