The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 83

‘Well!’ the young man said to himself, ‘if the old fellow has many daughters like that I should not mind being his son-in-law.

Who acts: young man, old fellow, I, son · What happens: say, have, not mind, be · To what, where: man, many daughters, law · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, old fellow, I, son), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mind	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 mind	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 has	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fellow	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fellow	amod
16	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 mind	advcl
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 daughters	amod
19	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 has	obj
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 daughters	nmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 mind	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 mind	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 mind	advmod
25	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 law	cop
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 law	nmod:poss
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 law	nsubj
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 law	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 law	case
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 in	punct
32	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mind	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the young man		man			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	have a condition, not said to happen	present	the old fellow	many daughters			like that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	not mind	should	I					vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	gerund	son			man's law		tree rules

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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