The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 75

The Prince suddenly remembered the gold-spinners, and said to himself: “If I ride thither, who knows but that they could explain this to me?”

Who acts: Prince, I, spinners · What happens: remember, say, ride, know, explain · To what, where: gold spinners, prince, this, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, I, spinners), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 remembered	nsubj
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 remembered	advmod
4	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spinners	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spinners	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 gold	punct
8	spinners	spinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remembered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 said	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 ride	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 ride	punct
16	If	if	SCONJ	_	18 ride	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 ride	nsubj
18	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
19	thither	thither	ADV	_	18 ride	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knows	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 knows	nsubj
22	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ride	parataxis
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 explain	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 explain	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 explain	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 explain	aux
27	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 knows	conj
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 explain	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 explain	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 knows	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	remember	past	the Prince	the gold spinners		suddenly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent spinner=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past			prince		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	ride a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	I			thither property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	know in a quote	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	explain speech: assert in a quote	could	spinners = spinner	this	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to i=Recipient

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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