The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 62

“No, my Prince,” replied Celia; “I cannot help thinking you very handsome; but what good would riches be to me, and all the grand dresses and splendid carriages that you would give me, if the bad deeds which I should see you do every day made me hate and despise you?”

Who acts: Celia, splendid carriages, you, grand dresses · What happens: reply, not help, think, be, give, see · To what, where: you, bad deeds, Celia · 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 (Celia, splendid carriages, you, grand dresses), 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	_	8 replied	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 replied	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Prince	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Prince	nmod:poss
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 No	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Celia	Celia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 help	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 help	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 help	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 help	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 help	advmod
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 replied	advcl
16	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 help	xcomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 thinking	obj
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 handsome	advmod
19	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thinking	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 me	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 me	cc
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 me	nsubj
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 riches	amod
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 riches	aux
25	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 me	nsubj
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 me	cop
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 replied	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 made	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 made	cc
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 dresses	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dresses	det
33	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dresses	amod
34	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 made	nsubj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 carriages	cc
36	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 carriages	amod
37	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 dresses	conj
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 give	nsubj
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 give	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 give	aux
41	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 carriages	acl:relcl
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 give	iobj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 deeds	punct
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 deeds	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 deeds	det
46	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 deeds	amod
47	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 give	obl
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 see	obj
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 see	nsubj
50	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 see	aux
51	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 deeds	acl:relcl
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 do	nsubj
53	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 see	ccomp
54	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	55 day	det
55	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 do	obl:unmarked
56	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 replied	conj
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 made	obj
58	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 made	xcomp
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 despise	cc
60	despise	despise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 hate	conj
61	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	60 despise	obj
62	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: ask	past	Celia					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not help in a quote	can	Celia					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	think speech: other not said to happen, in a quote	gerund	Celia not said here	you			handsome property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
4	is in a quote	infinitive					to Celia	tree rules
5	give in a quote	would	splendid carriages	the bad deeds	Celia			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	see in a quote	should	Celia	the bad deeds				tree rules
7	do in a quote	present	you			day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	make in a quote	past	all grand dresses and splendid carriages	Celia				tree rules
9	hate in a quote	infinitive	Celia not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
10	despise in a quote	infinitive	Celia not said here	you				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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