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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 40

‘It is all very well for Ciccu to have got possession of the sword, but it would have been far more to your majesty’s honour if he had captured the Man-eater himself.’

Who acts: sword, possession, Ciccu, majesty · What happens: be, get, have, capture, possess, honour · To what, where: possession, more, Man eater, sword

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, possession, Ciccu, majesty), 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

punctnsubjcopadvmodadvmodadvmodcaseoblmarkauxobjcasedetnmodpunctccnsubjconjxcompcopadvmodobjcasenmod:possnmod:posscaseoblmarknsubjauxacl:relcldetcompoundpunctobjnmodpunctpunctroot‘PUNCTItPRONisAUXallADVveryADVwellADVforADPCiccuPROPNtoPARThaveAUXgotVERBpossessionNOUNofADPtheDETswordNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJitPRONwouldAUXhaveVERBbeenAUXfarADVmoreADJtoADPyourPRONmajestyNOUN’sPARThonourNOUNifSCONJhePRONhadAUXcapturedVERBtheDETManNOUN-PUNCTeaterNOUNhimselfPRON.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_11 gotpunct
2ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 wellnsubj
3isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 wellcop
4allallADV_6 welladvmod
5veryveryADV_6 welladvmod
6wellwellADVDegree=Pos11 gotadvmod
7forforADP_8 Ciccucase
8CiccuCiccuPROPNNumber=Sing6 wellobl
9totoPART_11 gotmark
10havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf11 gotaux
11gotgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
12possessionpossessionNOUNNumber=Sing11 gotobj
13ofofADP_15 swordcase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 sworddet
15swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing12 possessionnmod
16,,PUNCT_19 wouldpunct
17butbutCCONJ_19 wouldcc
18ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 wouldnsubj
19wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin11 gotconj
20havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf19 wouldxcomp
21beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part22 farcop
22farfarADVDegree=Pos23 moreadvmod
23moremoreADJDegree=Cmp20 haveobj
24totoADP_28 honourcase
25youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 majestynmod:poss
26majestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing28 honournmod:poss
27’s'sPART_26 majestycase
28honourhonourNOUNNumber=Sing23 moreobl
29ififSCONJ_32 capturedmark
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 capturednsubj
31hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 capturedaux
32capturedcaptureVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part28 honouracl:relcl
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 eaterdet
34ManmanNOUNNumber=Sing36 eatercompound
35--PUNCT_34 Manpunct
36eatereaterNOUNNumber=Sing32 capturedobj
37himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes36 eaternmod
38..PUNCT_11 gotpunct
39’'PUNCT_11 gotpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentswordfor Ciccu; all, well propertytree rules
2getto-infinitive · perfectpossession of the swordvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus
3haveinfinitivepossession of the sword not said heremorevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
4isparticiplefar propertytree rules
5capture a condition, not said to happenpast · perfectCiccuthe Man eater Ciccuvn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eater=Theme
6possessthe swordnom possession «act transitive»: of=patient
7honouryour majestynom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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