The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 4

The eldest was quite willing to go to the meadow; he would watch the grass, he said, and he would do it so well that neither man, nor beast, nor even the devil himself should have any of it.

Who acts: eldest, man, devil · What happens: be, go, watch, say, do, have · To what, where: meadow, grass, any · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, man, devil), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 willing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 willing	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 willing	advmod
5	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 willing	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 meadow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meadow	det
10	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 watch	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 watch	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 watch	aux
14	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 willing	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 grass	det
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watch	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 watch	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 do	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	obj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 well	advmod
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 do	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 man	mark
29	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	30 man	det
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 beast	punct
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	33 beast	cc
33	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 have	punct
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	38 devil	cc
36	even	even	ADV	_	38 devil	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 devil	det
38	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 have	nsubj
39	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 have	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 have	aux
41	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 watch	parataxis
42	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	41 have	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 any	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the eldest			willing property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	the eldest not said here		the meadow		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Initial_Location
3	watch	would	man	the grass			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do	would	man	grass		well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	have	should	the devil	any			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=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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