The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 36

And the second brother said to himself as he listened, ‘Certainly he has managed very badly, but I should like to see if I can’t do better, and win the princess for my own self.’

Who acts: second brother, brother, I · What happens: say, listen, manage, like, see, not do · To what, where: brother, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second brother, brother, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 said	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 listened	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 listened	nsubj
10	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 managed	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 managed	punct
13	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	16 managed	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 managed	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 managed	aux
16	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 listened	conj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 badly	advmod
18	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 managed	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 like	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 like	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 like	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 like	aux
23	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 like	xcomp
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 do	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 do	nsubj
28	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 do	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 do	advmod
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	ccomp
31	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 do	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 win	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 win	cc
34	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 like	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 princess	det
36	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 win	obj
37	for	for	ADP	_	40 self	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 self	nmod:poss
39	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 self	amod
40	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 win	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 like	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the second brother		brother		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	listen	past	brother				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	manage	present · perfect	brother			badly, certainly property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	like	should	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not do a condition, not said to happen	can	I			well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	win	infinitive	I not said here	the princess		for my own self	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent princess=Theme for self=Beneficiary

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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