The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 124

The Queen said she would like to have this wonderful little dog, and the Prince would have been very happy in his new home if he could have forgotten that he was a man and a king.

Who acts: Queen, this, Prince · What happens: say, like, have, dog, be, forget · To what, where: new home, man · 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 (Queen, this, Prince), 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 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 like	xcomp
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 dog	nsubj
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 happy	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 happy	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Prince	det
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 happy	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 happy	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 happy	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 happy	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 happy	advmod
21	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 home	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 home	nmod:poss
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 home	amod
25	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 happy	obl
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 forgotten	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 forgotten	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 forgotten	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 forgotten	aux
30	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 happy	advcl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 man	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 man	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 man	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 forgotten	advcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 king	cc
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 king	det
38	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 man	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like	would	queen				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	queen not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	dog		this				tree rules
5	is	would · perfect	the Prince		prince's new home	happy property	tree rules
6	forget a condition, not said to happen	could · perfect	prince				tree rules
7	is a	past	prince	a man and a king			tree rules

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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