The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 53

Prince,’ said she, ‘if I take it, it is only that I may give it back to you, since truly it belongs to you already.’

Who acts: Prince, I, compliment, diamond · What happens: say, take, be, belong · To what, where: diamond, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, I, compliment, diamond), 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Prince	punct
3	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Prince	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 take	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 take	nsubj
10	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 give	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 give	cop
15	only	only	ADV	_	19 give	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 give	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	obj
21	back	back	ADV	_	19 give	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 back	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 belongs	punct
25	since	since	SCONJ	_	28 belongs	mark
26	truly	truly	ADV	_	28 belongs	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 belongs	nsubj
28	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 give	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 belongs	obl
31	already	already	ADV	_	28 belongs	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take a condition, not said to happen	present	I	diamond			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	may · present	compliment			give property	tree rules
4	belong	present	diamond		you	truly property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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 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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