The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 49

“Indeed,” said the Prince, “when I have supped it will give me the greatest pleasure to hear it; but consider, madam, I beg of you, that I have had nothing to eat to-day.”

Who acts: Prince, nose · What happens: say, sup, give, hear, consider, beg · To what, where: greatest pleasure, Prince, nose, nothing · 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, nose), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 supped	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 supped	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 supped	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 supped	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 supped	aux
13	supped	sup	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 supped	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pleasure	det
19	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 pleasure	amod
20	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 hear	mark
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pleasure	csubj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hear	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 consider	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 consider	cc
26	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 madam	punct
28	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 consider	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 beg	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 beg	nsubj
31	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 beg	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 had	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 had	aux
38	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 beg	conj
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	38 had	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 eat	mark
41	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 nothing	acl
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 day	case
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 to	punct
44	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eat	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Prince				indeed property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sup in a quote	present · perfect	the Prince = prince					tree rules
3	give in a quote	future	nose	the greatest pleasure	the Prince = prince			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pleasure=Theme
4	hear in a quote	to-infinitive		nose				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	consider in a quote	infinitive	the Prince not said here					vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
6	beg speech: request in a quote	present	the Prince = prince				of you	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
7	have in a quote	present · perfect	the Prince = prince	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
8	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	the Prince = prince not said here	nothing not said here		day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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