The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 77

What good was it that I sent her more than fifty pounds of sweetmeats, and as much again of the best sugar, not to mention two Westphalia hams?

Who acts: I · What happens: be, send, not mention · To what, where: enemy, fifty pounds, Queen, two Westphalia hams

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 good	nsubj
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 it	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 good	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 sent	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sent	nsubj
7	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 good	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sent	obj
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	11 fifty	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	9 more	fixed
11	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 pounds	nummod
12	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sent	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 sweetmeats	case
14	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pounds	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 much	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 much	cc
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 good	conj
19	again	again	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 sugar	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sugar	det
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 sugar	amod
23	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 much	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mention	punct
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 mention	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 mention	mark
27	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 good	conj
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 hams	nummod
29	Westphalia	Westphalia	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hams	compound
30	hams	ham	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 mention	obj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past		enemy		tree rules
2	send	past	I	fifty pounds of sweetmeats	Queen	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination pound=Theme
3	not mention speech: other	to-infinitive		two Westphalia hams		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ham=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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