The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 75

Only, she said, he must take very great care not to be seen, as it would be as much as her place was worth to be caught helping King Charming to see the Princess.

Who acts: Fiordelisa, squire, care, place · What happens: say, take, not see, be, catch, help · To what, where: great care, Charming, Princess · 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 (Fiordelisa, squire, care, place), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 great	advmod
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 care	amod
11	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 seen	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	15 seen	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 seen	aux:pass
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 take	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 much	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 much	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 much	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 much	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 much	cop
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 much	advmod
22	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seen	conj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 worth	mark
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 place	nmod:poss
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 worth	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 worth	cop
27	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 much	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	30 caught	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 caught	aux:pass
30	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 worth	advcl
31	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 caught	xcomp
32	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Charming	nmod:desc
33	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 helping	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 see	mark
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 helping	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Princess	det
37	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 see	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fiordelisa				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	must	squire	great care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	not see	to-infinitive · passive	squire not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
4	is	would	care			much property	tree rules
5	is	past	Fiordelisa's place			worth property	tree rules
6	catch	to-infinitive · passive	Fiordelisa's place not said here				tree rules
7	help	gerund	Fiordelisa's place not said here		Charming King		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=Beneficiary
8	see	to-infinitive	Fiordelisa's place not said here	the Princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus

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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