The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 14
The woman saw this, and said that he might have it if he would take the trouble to get it; for which the Prince thanked her, and said it was at least worth trying.
Who acts: woman, Prince, barrel · What happens: see, say, have, take, get, thank · To what, where: this, barrel, trouble, woman, least · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Prince, barrel), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trouble | det |
| 18 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 thanked | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 thanked | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Prince | det |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 thanked | nsubj |
| 27 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 thanked | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 thanked | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 worth | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 worth | cop |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 least | case |
| 35 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 worth | obl |
| 36 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 said | ccomp |
| 37 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 worth | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the woman | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | might | Prince | barrel | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take a condition, not said to happen | would | Prince | the trouble | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | barrel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | thank speech: thank | past | the Prince | woman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for which=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | past | barrel | least | worth property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | try | gerund | barrel not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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 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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