The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 148

‘Would you like to fly away free?’ said the princess, ‘or will you have a permanent place as court crows with what you can get in the kitchen?’

Who acts: you · What happens: like, fly away, say, have, get · To what, where: princess, permanent place, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	4 like	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fly	mark
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fly	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ‘	punct
15	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 princess	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 place	det
21	permanent	permanent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 place	amod
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 crows	case
24	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crows	compound
25	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 place	nmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 what	case
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 crows	nmod
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 get	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 get	aux
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 what	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 kitchen	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 kitchen	det
33	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 get	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	like	would	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fly away not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			away, free property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the princess and ‘			tree rules
4	have	future	you	a permanent place		as court crows with a permanent place	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
5	get	can	you		the kitchen		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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