The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 64

Therefore he said he would himself write an opera that should be absolutely a novelty and something worth hearing.

Who acts: world, opera · What happens: say, write, be · To what, where: opera, novelty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, opera), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 write	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 write	aux
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 write	nsubj
7	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 opera	det
9	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 write	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 novelty	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 novelty	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 novelty	cop
13	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	15 novelty	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 novelty	det
15	novelty	novelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opera	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 something	cc
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 novelty	conj
18	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hearing	amod
19	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 something	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	world		therefore property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	write	would	world	a opera		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opera=Theme
3	is a	should	a opera	a novelty	absolutely property	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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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