The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 202
Now, if YOU had been the Prince, would you not rather have stayed with the pretty witch-maiden?
Who acts: you · What happens: be, not stay · To what, where: Prince
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 Prince | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 been | mark |
| 4 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 been | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 been | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 Prince | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 stayed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Prince | punct |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stayed | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 stayed | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 stayed | advmod |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 15 stayed | advmod |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stayed | aux |
| 15 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 maiden | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 maiden | det |
| 18 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 maiden | amod |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 maiden | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 witch | punct |
| 21 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stayed | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | participle | the Prince | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not stay | would · perfect | you | with the pretty witch maiden | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with maiden=Location |
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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