The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 39

Ring thanked him heartily, and said there was no need to pay him for his services, they were so little worth; but if he did wish to give him anything he would choose what was in the parlour.

Who acts: Ring, need, Prince · What happens: thank, say, be, pay, wish, give · To what, where: Prince, little worth, anything, parlour · 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 (Ring, need, Prince), 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	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	obj
4	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	2 thanked	advmod
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	2 thanked	parataxis
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 need	det
11	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pay	mark
13	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 need	acl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pay	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 services	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 services	nmod:poss
17	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pay	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 worth	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 worth	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 worth	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 little	advmod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 worth	amod
23	worth	worth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 need	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 wish	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 wish	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 wish	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wish	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wish	aux
29	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thanked	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 give	mark
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wish	xcomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 give	obj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 choose	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 choose	aux
36	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 anything	acl:relcl
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 parlour	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 parlour	cop
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 parlour	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 parlour	det
41	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 choose	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	Ring		Prince		heartily property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	past	no need and little worth			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pay	to-infinitive	no need and little worth not said here	Prince			for Prince's services	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Asset for service=Theme
5	is a	past	need	little worth				tree rules
6	wish a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	Ring					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ring not said here	anything	Prince			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Theme
8	choose	would	Ring					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	is	past				the parlour		tree rules
10	service		Prince					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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