The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 61
He even went so far as to ask her if she would not be very grateful to anyone who would rid her of the insolent Brandatimor.
Who acts: Prince, Princess · What happens: go, ask, not be, rid · To what, where: Princess
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Princess), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 ask | mark |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ask | mark |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 far | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | iobj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 grateful | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grateful | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 grateful | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 grateful | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 grateful | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 grateful | advmod |
| 16 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ask | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 anyone | case |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 grateful | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 rid | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 rid | aux |
| 21 | rid | rid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rid | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 insolent | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 insolent | det |
| 25 | insolent | insolent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rid | obl |
| 26 | Brandatimor | Brandatimor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 insolent | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Prince | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen | would | Princess | to anyone; grateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rid | would | Princess | of the insolent | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Source of insolent=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 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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