The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 3

At last the emperor said to his eldest son, ‘If only I could prevent those robbers from stealing my fruit, how happy I should be!’

Who acts: last emperor, I · What happens: say, prevent, steal, be · To what, where: robbers, fruit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last emperor, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 emperor	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 emperor	det
4	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 son	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
8	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 son	amod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 prevent	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 prevent	punct
12	If	if	SCONJ	_	13 only	mark
13	only	only	ADV	_	16 prevent	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 prevent	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 prevent	aux
16	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
17	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 robbers	det
18	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 prevent	obj
19	from	from	SCONJ	_	20 stealing	mark
20	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 prevent	advcl
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fruit	nmod:poss
22	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stealing	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 happy	punct
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 happy	advmod
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 prevent	parataxis
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 be	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 be	aux
28	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 happy	ccomp
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 prevent	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 prevent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the last emperor		to emperor's eldest son	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to son=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	prevent	could	I	that robbers		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer robber=Theme
3	steal	gerund	I not said here	my fruit		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fruit=Theme
4	be	should	I			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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