The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 35

‘Yes,’ said the Emperor, ‘but there are so many who ask for a place that I don’t know whether there will be one for you; but, still, I will think of you.

Who acts: Emperor, many, I, one · What happens: say, be, ask, not know, think · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Emperor, many, I, one), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Emperor	det
7	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 are	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 are	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 are	expl
12	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ask	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 ask	nsubj
16	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 are	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 place	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ask	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 know	obj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 know	advmod
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 place	acl:relcl
25	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	28 be	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 be	expl
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 be	aux
28	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 know	ccomp
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 be	nsubj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 one	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 think	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 think	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 but	punct
35	still	still	ADV	_	39 think	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 still	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 think	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 think	aux
39	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 think	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Emperor					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	present			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	present	many				for a place	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not know	present · do-support	I	a place				tree rules
5	be	future	one for you		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	think speech: other	future	I			still	of you	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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