The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 5

There were hundreds of princesses who would gladly have said ‘Yes,’ but would she say the same?

Who acts: hundreds, princesses, name · What happens: be, say · To what, where: same · 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 (hundreds, princesses, name), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 princesses	case
5	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 said	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux
8	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	aux
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 princesses	acl:relcl
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
12	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	18 say	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Yes	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 Yes	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 same	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 say	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	hundreds of princesses		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	would · perfect	princesses			gladly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	would	name	the same			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent same=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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