The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 75
Then she said she would not sell it unless she was granted one favour--namely, to sleep by the Prince’s door.
Who acts: bride · What happens: say, not sell, grant, sleep · To what, where: dress, bride · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sell | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sell | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sell | advmod |
| 7 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sell | obj |
| 9 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 12 granted | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 granted | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 granted | aux:pass |
| 12 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sell | advcl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 favour | nummod |
| 14 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 granted | obj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 namely | punct |
| 16 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 favour | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sleep | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sleep | mark |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 sell | parataxis |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Prince | det |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 door | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Prince | case |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sleep | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | bride | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not sell | would | bride | dress | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grant a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | bride | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal favour=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | by the Prince's door | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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