The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 71
“But,” said Prince Darling, “would it not be a shame if I had an innocent girl put to death?
Who acts: Prince Darling, pleasure · What happens: say, not be, have, put · To what, where: shame, innocent girl · 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 (Prince Darling, pleasure), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Darling | compound |
| 7 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shame | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 shame | punct |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 shame | aux |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shame | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 shame | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 shame | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shame | det |
| 15 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | parataxis |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shame | advcl |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 20 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girl | amod |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 girl | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Prince Darling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | would | pleasure | a shame | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | Prince Darling = darling | a innocent girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | ||||
| 4 | put in a quote | participle | a innocent girl not said here | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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