The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 33

‘Ah well,’ said the Princess, ‘I suppose one can’t have everything, and it’s certainly better to be good than pretty.’

Who acts: Princess, I, one, side · What happens: say, suppose, not have, be · To what, where: everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, I, one, side), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	well	well	INTJ	_	2 Ah	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 suppose	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 suppose	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 suppose	nsubj
12	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 have	nsubj
14	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 suppose	ccomp
17	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 have	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 better	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 better	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 better	nsubj
21	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 better	cop
22	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	23 better	advmod
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 suppose	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	26 good	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 good	cop
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 better	advcl
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 pretty	case
28	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	26 good	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	suppose	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not have	can	one	everything		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
4	is	present	side		certainly, good property	tree rules
5	is	to-infinitive	side not said here		good property	tree rules

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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