The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 73

There he said to a young squire whom he had brought with him: ‘I would give all I have in the world to gain the good will of one of the Princess’s waiting-women, and obtain a moment’s speech with Fiordelisa.’

Who acts: King, I, moment · What happens: say, bring, give, have, gain, obtain · To what, where: young squire, world, speech · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (King, I, moment), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 said	expl
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	to	to	ADP	_	7 squire	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 squire	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 squire	amod
7	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 brought	nsubj:pass
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brought	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brought	aux
11	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 squire	acl:relcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brought	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
19	all	all	ADV	_	21 have	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 give	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 gain	mark
26	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 have	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 will	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 will	amod
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 gain	advcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 one	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 will	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	38 women	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Princess	det
34	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 women	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 Princess	case
36	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 women	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 waiting	punct
38	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 one	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 obtain	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 obtain	cc
41	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 give	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 moment	det
43	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 speech	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 moment	case
45	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 obtain	obj
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 Fiordelisa	case
47	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 speech	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	King		there	to a young squire	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to squire=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	bring	past · perfect · passive		a young squire		with King	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
3	give	would	I				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	have	present	I		the world	all property	tree rules
5	gain	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	obtain	infinitive	I not said here	a moment's speech		with Fiordelisa	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Theme
7	speak		a moment			with Fiordelisa	nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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