The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 44

‘I suppose the prince had no arms with him, or else he would have used them?’

Who acts: I, prince, king · What happens: suppose, have, use · To what, where: arms, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, prince, king), 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	_	3 suppose	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 suppose	nsubj
3	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suppose	ccomp
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 arms	det
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 arms	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 used	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 used	cc
13	else	else	ADV	_	17 used	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 used	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 used	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 used	aux
17	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 suppose	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 used	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	the prince	no arms	with king	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
3	use	would · perfect	king	Prince	else property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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