The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 36

‘There is a little room there,’ said the Princess, ‘and if I could get a man to stay in it from ten o’clock till midnight for three nights on end I should be freed from the spell.’

Who acts: little room, I, man, end · What happens: be, say, get, stay, free · To what, where: Princess, man, room, I, spell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little room, I, man, end), 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 room	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 room	amod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 is	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ‘	punct
14	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Princess	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 get	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 get	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Princess	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 stay	mark
23	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 get	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stay	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 o’clock	case
27	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 o’clock	nummod
28	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stay	obl
29	till	till	ADP	_	30 midnight	case
30	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 o’clock	nmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 nights	case
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 nights	nummod
33	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stay	obl
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 end	case
35	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nights	nmod
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 freed	nsubj:pass
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 freed	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 freed	aux:pass
39	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 end	acl:relcl
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 spell	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 spell	det
42	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 freed	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a little room		there; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the Princess and ‘				tree rules
3	get a condition, not said to happen	could	I	a man				tree rules
4	stay	to-infinitive	a man not said here		room	night	from ten o’clock till midnight	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
5	free	should · passive	end not said here	I	the spell			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source

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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