The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 78

“Maybe it was you who should have had the Prince,” said the old woman.

Who acts: way, you, old woman · What happens: be, have, say · To what, where: you, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, you, old woman), 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	_	9 had	punct
2	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	5 you	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 you	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 you	cop
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 had	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	aux
9	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Prince	det
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Prince	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	way	you	maybe property	tree rules
2	have in a quote	should · perfect	you	the Prince		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the old woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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