The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 84

And she said that the only reward he could give her was to take the spell off the lion and bring him back to his own shape.

Who acts: girl, prince, only reward · What happens: say, give, be, bring back · To what, where: only reward, girl, prince, own shape · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, prince, only reward), 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	_	3 said	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 take	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reward	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reward	amod
7	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	nsubj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reward	acl:relcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	iobj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 take	cop
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 spell	det
16	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	19 lion	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lion	det
19	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bring	cc
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 take	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obj
23	back	back	ADV	_	21 bring	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 shape	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shape	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shape	amod
27	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bring	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	girl					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	could	prince	the only reward not said here	girl			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	is	past	the only reward				off the lion; take property	tree rules
4	bring back	infinitive	the only reward not said here	prince		prince's own shape		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to shape=Destination

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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