The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 37

The fox agreed that this would be excellent; if the prince would now go and carry her off he would give him three grains of gold for that purpose.

Who acts: fox, this, prince · What happens: agree, be, go, carry off, give · To what, where: princess, three grains, fox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, this, prince), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agreed	nsubj
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 excellent	mark
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 excellent	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 excellent	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 excellent	cop
8	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 agreed	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 go	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 go	advmod
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 agreed	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 carry	cc
17	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 carry	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	17 carry	compound:prt
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 grains	nummod
25	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 give	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 gold	case
27	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grains	nmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 purpose	case
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 purpose	det
30	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the fox					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	this				excellent property	tree rules
3	go a condition, not said to happen	would	the prince			now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry off	infinitive	the prince not said here	princess				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	give	would	prince	three grains of gold	fox		for that purpose	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient grain=Theme for purpose=Asset

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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