The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 8

Truly the man would have had no objection to be rich, but he thought to himself: “I must first ask my daughter about this,” so he went in and told them that there was a great white bear outside who had faithfully promised to make them all rich if he might but have the youngest daughter.

Who acts: man, great white bear · What happens: have, be, think, ask, go in, tell · To what, where: objection, man, daughter, walls, great white bear, youngest daughter · 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 (man, great white bear), 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	Truly	truly	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 had	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	aux
6	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 objection	det
8	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 rich	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 rich	cop
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 objection	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 thought	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 ask	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 ask	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 ask	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 ask	aux
22	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 ask	advmod
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 daughter	nmod:poss
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ask	obj
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 this	case
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 ask	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ask	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
33	in	in	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 told	cc
35	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 went	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 told	iobj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 was	mark
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 was	expl
39	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 told	ccomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 bear	det
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 bear	amod
42	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 bear	amod
43	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 was	nsubj
44	outside	outside	ADP	_	48 promised	mark
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 promised	nsubj:pass
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 promised	aux
47	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	48 promised	advmod
48	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 bear	acl:relcl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 make	mark
50	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 promised	xcomp
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 make	obj
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 rich	det
53	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 make	xcomp
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	56 might	mark
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 might	nsubj
56	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 rich	advcl
57	but	but	CCONJ	_	58 have	cc
58	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 make	conj
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 daughter	det
60	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	61 daughter	amod
61	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 have	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	would · perfect	the man	no objection			truly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Patient
2	is	to-infinitive	the man not said here	no objection not said here			rich property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	man		man			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	must	man		my daughter		about this; first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient about this=Topic
5	go in	past	man					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	man not said here		walls = wall			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
7	be	past	a great white bear			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	promise speech: promise	past · perfect · passive		a great white bear			faithfully property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
9	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		walls = wall			rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
10	have	present		the youngest daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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