The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 48

‘But as nothing that I can say will move you, I suppose I shall have to try to do my best, for the Princess I will have.’

Who acts: I, nothing · What happens: say, move, suppose, have, try, do · To what, where: you, best, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (I, nothing), 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	_	10 move	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 nothing	cc
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 nothing	case
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 move	nsubj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 say	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 move	aux
10	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 move	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 suppose	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 suppose	nsubj
14	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 move	parataxis
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 suppose	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 try	mark
19	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 have	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 try	xcomp
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 best	nmod:poss
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 do	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Princess	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 Princess	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Princess	det
27	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	obl
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 Princess	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 move	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 move	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	can	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	move	future	nothing	you		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme you=Result
3	suppose	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	shall	I			tree rules
5	try	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my best	for the Princess	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
7	have	future	I	the Princess not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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 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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