The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 168

‘With the greatest of pleasure!’ said the Princess; ‘but have you anything you can roast them in? for I have neither pot nor saucepan.’

Who acts: pleasure, you, I · What happens: say, have, roast in · To what, where: Princess, anything, chickens, pot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure, you, I), 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	_	6 pleasure	punct
2	With	with	ADP	_	4 greatest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 greatest	det
4	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 pleasure	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 pleasure	case
6	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 pleasure	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 pleasure	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 anything	nsubj
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 have	obj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 roast	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 roast	aux
20	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 anything	acl:relcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 roast	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	20 roast	compound:prt
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 anything	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 have	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 have	advcl
27	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	28 pot	det
28	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	30 saucepan	cc
30	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pot	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	pleasure with the greatest	the Princess	tree rules
2	have	present		anything	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
3	roast in	can	you	chickens = chicken	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	have	present	I	neither pot nor saucepan	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient

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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