The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 46

The Prince answered at once, ‘I have heard so much of your beauty and kindness, that I would very much like to enter your service.’

Who acts: Prince, I, your · What happens: answer, hear, like, enter, service · To what, where: much, service

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, I, your), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 answered	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	aux
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 answered	parataxis
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heard	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 beauty	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 beauty	nmod:poss
15	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 much	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kindness	cc
17	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beauty	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 like	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 like	aux
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 like	advmod
24	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 heard	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 enter	mark
26	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 like	xcomp
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 service	nmod:poss
28	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 enter	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the Prince		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	present · perfect	I	much of your beauty and kindness	tree rules
3	like	would	I		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	enter not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	your service	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination
5	service		your		nom service «act 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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