The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 76

The prince answered nothing, but thought, ‘Well, most peasants of nineteen have got a whole herd to look after, so surely I can manage one.’

Who acts: prince, most peasants, I · What happens: answer, think, get, look, manage · To what, where: nothing, whole herd, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, most peasants, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 answered	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 thought	cc
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 got	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 got	punct
10	Well	well	INTJ	_	17 got	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Well	punct
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 peasants	amod
13	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 got	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 nineteen	case
15	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 peasants	nmod
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 got	aux
17	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 thought	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 herd	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 herd	amod
20	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 got	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 look	mark
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 got	advcl
23	after	after	ADV	_	22 look	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 manage	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	29 manage	advmod
26	surely	surely	ADV	_	29 manage	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 manage	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 manage	aux
29	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	parataxis
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 manage	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 manage	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the prince	nothing		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	past	the prince not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	get	present · perfect	most peasants of nineteen	a whole herd		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herd=Stimulus
4	look	to-infinitive	most peasants of nineteen not said here		after property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	manage	can	I	one	surely property	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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