The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 20
What good would it do him to be rich, or handsome, or to possess all the kingdoms of the world if he were wicked?
Who acts: door, king · What happens: do, be, possess · To what, where: king, kingdoms
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 (door, king), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 What | amod |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 rich | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rich | cop |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 do | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 handsome | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 handsome | cc |
| 12 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rich | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 possess | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 possess | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 possess | mark |
| 16 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 kingdoms | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kingdoms | det |
| 19 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 possess | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kingdoms | nmod |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 wicked | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wicked | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 wicked | cop |
| 26 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 possess | advcl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | would | door | king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | door not said here | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | door not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | possess | to-infinitive | door not said here | all kingdoms of the world | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | king | wicked property | 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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