The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 16

“Such costly soup is not to be had in my father’s palace,” said the Prince; “but everything depends on how it tastes,” and then he went into the third room.

Who acts: Prince, everything, soup · What happens: not be, say, depend, taste, go · To what, where: palace, third room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, everything, soup), 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	_	17 said	punct
2	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soup	amod
3	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soup	amod
4	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 had	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 had	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	9 had	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	aux:pass
9	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 palace	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 palace	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 father	case
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Prince	det
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 depends	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 depends	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 depends	cc
23	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 depends	nsubj
24	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
25	on	on	SCONJ	_	28 tastes	mark
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 tastes	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tastes	nsubj
28	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 depends	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tastes	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 tastes	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 went	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 went	nsubj
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 tastes	conj
35	into	into	ADP	_	38 room	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 room	det
37	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 room	amod
38	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present · passive		my father's palace		have property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	depend in a quote	present	everything				tree rules
4	taste in a quote	present	soup				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	go	past	Prince	the third room	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location

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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