The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 49

She desired to have everything brought up to her, but he said: “There is such a quantity of things that it would take many days to bring them up, and they would take up so many rooms that you would have no space for them in your house.”

Who acts: master, John, it, wares, many rooms · What happens: desire, have, bring up, say, be, take · To what, where: everything, master, quantity, things, wares, many rooms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, John, it, wares), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 desired	nsubj
2	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 have	mark
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 desired	xcomp
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 have	obj
6	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 everything	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 brought	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 desired	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 quantity	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 is	punct
16	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 is	expl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 quantity	cop
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 quantity	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 quantity	det
20	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 things	case
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 quantity	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 take	obj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 take	aux
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 things	acl:relcl
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 days	amod
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 take	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 bring	mark
30	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 take	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bring	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 bring	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 take	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 take	cc
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 take	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 take	aux
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 desired	parataxis
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 take	compound:prt
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 many	advmod
40	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 rooms	amod
41	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 take	obj
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 have	nsubj
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 have	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 have	aux
45	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 rooms	acl:relcl
46	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	47 space	det
47	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 have	obj
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 space	nmod
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 house	case
51	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 house	nmod:poss
52	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 have	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 take	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	desire	past	master						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	master not said here	everything					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
3	bring up	participle			master				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	John						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present		such quantity				of things	tree rules
6	take in a quote	would	it	things			day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
7	bring up in a quote	to-infinitive		wares = ware					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
8	take up in a quote	would	wares = ware	many rooms					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
9	have in a quote	would	many rooms	no space		your house		for wares = ware	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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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