The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 52

‘It would be better still if you would carry me,’ said she sweetly, ‘but as I don’t like to see people giving themselves trouble, you may carry me, and make that snail carry you.’

Who acts: Castle, you, better, I, people, walking · What happens: be, carry, say, not like, see, give · To what, where: me, people, trouble, snail, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Castle, you, better, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 better	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 better	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 better	cop
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 said	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	10 carry	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 carry	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 carry	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 carry	aux
10	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 better	advcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 carry	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 carry	nsubj
16	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	34 carry	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sweetly	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 carry	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 carry	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 like	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 like	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 like	advmod
24	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 carry	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 like	xcomp
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 see	obj
28	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 people	acl
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 giving	iobj
30	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 giving	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 carry	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 carry	aux
34	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 carry	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 make	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 make	cc
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 carry	conj
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 snail	det
40	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 make	obj
41	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 make	xcomp
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 carry	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Castle				good property	tree rules
2	carry a condition, not said to happen	would	you	me		still		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	better					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not like	present · do-support	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
6	give	gerund	people not said here	trouble	people			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient trouble=Theme
7	carry	may	walking	me			sweetly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
8	make	infinitive	walking not said here	that snail				tree rules
9	carry	infinitive	that snail not said here	you				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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