The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 109

‘You would have nothing to do with a noble Prince; you did not understand the rose or the nightingale, but you could kiss the Swineherd for the sake of a toy.

Who acts: You · What happens: have, do, not understand, kiss · To what, where: nothing, rose, Swineherd

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. 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 have	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 Prince	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Prince	det
10	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Prince	amod
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 understand	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 understand	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 understand	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 understand	advmod
16	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rose	det
18	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 understand	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 nightingale	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 nightingale	det
21	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rose	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kiss	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 kiss	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 kiss	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 kiss	aux
26	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 understand	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Swineherd	det
28	Swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kiss	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 sake	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sake	det
31	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kiss	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 toy	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 toy	det
34	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sake	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	would	You	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	You not said here	nothing not said here	with a noble Prince	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not understand	past · do-support	you	the rose or the nightingale		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus
4	kiss	could	you	the Swineherd	for the sake of a toy	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swineherd=Co-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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