The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 38

“Not so funny as your own,” said Prince Hyacinth to the Fairy; “but, madam, I beg you to leave the consideration of our noses--such as they are--and to be good enough to give me something to eat, for I am starving, and so is my poor horse.”

Who acts: Prince Hyacinth · What happens: say, beg, leave, be, give, eat · To what, where: Fairy, madam, consideration, something, Prince Hyacinth, poor horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Hyacinth), 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	_	4 funny	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 funny	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 funny	advmod
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 funny	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 funny	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 funny	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Hyacinth	compound
12	Hyacinth	Hyacinth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Fairy	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Fairy	det
15	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 beg	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 beg	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 beg	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 madam	punct
20	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beg	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 madam	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 beg	nsubj
23	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 beg	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 leave	mark
26	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 beg	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 consideration	det
28	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leave	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 noses	case
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 noses	nmod:poss
31	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 consideration	nmod
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 are	punct
33	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	36 are	case
34	as	as	ADP	_	33 such	fixed
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 are	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 noses	acl:relcl
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 good	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 good	cc
39	to	to	PART	_	41 good	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 good	cop
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 beg	conj
42	enough	enough	ADV	_	41 good	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 give	mark
44	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 good	advcl
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 give	iobj
46	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	44 give	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 eat	mark
48	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 something	acl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 starving	punct
50	for	for	SCONJ	_	53 starving	mark
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 starving	nsubj
52	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 starving	aux
53	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 eat	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 horse	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 horse	cc
56	so	so	ADV	_	60 horse	advmod
57	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 horse	cop
58	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 horse	nmod:poss
59	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 horse	amod
60	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	parataxis
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	60 horse	punct
62	”	"	PUNCT	_	60 horse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Prince Hyacinth		the Fairy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fairy=Recipient clause=Topic
2	beg speech: request in a quote	present	Prince Hyacinth = hyacinth	madam	the Fairy = fairy		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	leave in a quote	to-infinitive	Prince Hyacinth = hyacinth not said here	the consideration of our noses			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consideration=Theme
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive	Prince Hyacinth = hyacinth not said here			enough, good property	tree rules
5	give in a quote	to-infinitive	Prince Hyacinth = hyacinth not said here	something	Prince Hyacinth = hyacinth		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme
6	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	Prince Hyacinth = hyacinth not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	starve in a quote	present · progressive	Prince Hyacinth = hyacinth				tree rules
8	is a in a quote	present		my poor horse			tree rules
9	consider in a quote			our noses			nom consideration «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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