The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 83

The king wouldn’t give him anything, and the eldest princesses wouldn’t give him anything, nor their sweethearts; but the youngest daughter and her true love did give him something, and kind words along with it, and that was better than all.

Who acts: king, eldest princesses, youngest daughter, that, court · What happens: not give, give, be, love · To what, where: anything, lake, something

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, eldest princesses, youngest daughter, that), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 give	advmod
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 give	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 give	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princesses	det
11	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 princesses	amod
12	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 give	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 give	advmod
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 give	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 give	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sweethearts	punct
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 sweethearts	cc
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sweethearts	nmod:poss
21	sweethearts	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 anything	appos
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 give	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 daughter	det
25	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 daughter	amod
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 love	cc
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 love	nmod:poss
29	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 love	amod
30	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 daughter	conj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 give	aux
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 give	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 give	iobj
34	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 give	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 words	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 words	cc
37	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 words	amod
38	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 something	appos
39	along	along	ADP	_	41 it	case
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 words	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 better	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 better	cc
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 better	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 better	cop
46	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 give	parataxis
47	than	than	ADP	_	48 all	case
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 better	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not give	would	the king	anything	lake		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Theme
2	not give	would	the eldest princesses	anything	lake		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Theme
3	give	past · do-support	the youngest daughter and court's true love	something	lake		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme
4	is	past	that			than all; good property	tree rules
5	love		court				nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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