The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 48

We would give everything we value in the world to take away the cause of your sorrow, but this seems to be another of the tricks of the Fairy Carabosse.

Who acts: We, this, your · What happens: give, value, take away, seem, cause, sorrow · To what, where: everything, world, cause, sorrow, Fairy Carabosse

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (We, this, your), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 give	obj
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 value	nsubj
6	value	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 everything	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 value	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 value	advcl
12	away	away	ADP	_	11 take	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cause	det
14	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sorrow	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sorrow	nmod:poss
17	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cause	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seems	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 seems	cc
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 seems	nsubj
21	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 give	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	24 another	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 another	cop
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 seems	xcomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 tricks	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tricks	det
27	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 another	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Carabosse	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Carabosse	det
30	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Carabosse	compound
31	Carabosse	Carabosse	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 tricks	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	give	would	We	everything		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	value	present	we		the world	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	take away	to-infinitive	we not said here	the cause of your sorrow		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
4	seem	present	this			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	cause			your sorrow		nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
6	sorrow		your			nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
7	trick			the Fairy Carabosse		nom trick «act transitive»: of=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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