The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 6
‘Nothing would please me more either,’ replied her husband.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: please, reply · To what, where: me, husband
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing), 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 please | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 please | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 please | aux |
| 4 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 please | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 either | advmod |
| 7 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 please | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 please | parataxis |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | would | Nothing | me | either property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | woman's husband | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent husband=Topic |
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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