The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 59

‘Whoever wants a beautiful doll, sweetmeats of all kinds, a little pair of scissors, a golden robe, and a satin cap has only to say where Fanfaronade has hidden the Princess Mayblossom.’

Who acts: Whoever, satin cap · What happens: want, have, say, hide · To what, where: beautiful doll, Fanfaronade · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Whoever, satin cap), 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	_	3 wants	punct
2	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 doll	det
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 doll	amod
6	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sweetmeats	punct
8	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doll	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 kinds	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 kinds	det
11	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sweetmeats	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pair	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pair	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pair	amod
15	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doll	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 scissors	case
17	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pair	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 robe	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 robe	det
20	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 robe	amod
21	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doll	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 has	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 has	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cap	det
25	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cap	compound
26	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wants	conj
28	only	only	ADV	_	30 say	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 say	mark
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 has	xcomp
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 hidden	advmod
32	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 hidden	nsubj:pass
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hidden	aux
34	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 say	ccomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Mayblossom	det
36	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Mayblossom	compound
37	Mayblossom	Mayblossom	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 hidden	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	Whoever	a beautiful doll and sweetmeats of all kinds and a little pair of scissors and a golden robe	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doll=Theme
2	have	present	a satin cap		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	a satin cap not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hide	present · perfect · passive		Fanfaronade	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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