The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 40

He began with compliments on my liberty, but he added that, save for the present state of things at Court, perhaps I might not have obtained it so soon.

Who acts: Reldresal, I · What happens: begin, add, save, not obtain · To what, where: liberty, Court, state

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reldresal, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 compliments	case
4	compliments	compliment	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 began	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 liberty	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 liberty	nmod:poss
7	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 added	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 added	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 added	nsubj
11	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 save	mark
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 save	punct
14	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 added	advcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 state	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 state	det
17	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 state	amod
18	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 save	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 things	case
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 state	nmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 Court	case
22	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 save	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 obtained	punct
24	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	29 obtained	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 obtained	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 obtained	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 obtained	advmod
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 obtained	aux
29	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 save	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 obtained	obj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 soon	advmod
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 obtained	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Reldresal		my liberty	with compliments	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with compliment=Subeventuality
2	add speech: assert	past	Reldresal				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	save	infinitive	Reldresal not said here		Court	for the present state of things	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for state=Source
4	not obtain	might · perfect	I	state		perhaps, soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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