The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 32

“What would that matter to you?” said the Prince “Surely you would not care?”

Who acts: that, Prince, you · What happens: matter, say, not care · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, 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 (that, Prince, you), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 matter	obj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	aux
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 matter	nsubj
5	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 matter	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 care	punct
14	Surely	surely	ADV	_	18 care	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 care	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 care	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 care	advmod
18	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 care	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	matter in a quote	would	that	you		tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the Prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not care in a quote	would	you		surely property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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