The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 118

“I would return good for evil,” he said to himself, “and save the unhappy man’s life.”

Who acts: Darling · What happens: return, say, save · To what, where: good, Darling, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling), 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 return	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 return	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 return	aux
4	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 return	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 evil	case
7	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 return	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 return	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 return	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	_	17 save	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 save	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 save	cc
17	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 life	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 man	case
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 save	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 save	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	return in a quote	would	Darling	good		for evil	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Darling		Darling		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	save in a quote	infinitive		the unhappy man's life			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

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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