The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 56

I began to think I should like very well to stay in this pleasant country, and I said so to the stately lady, but she answered with the greatest disdain:

Who acts: I, sun · What happens: begin, think, like, stay, say, answer · To what, where: pleasant country, stately lady · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (I, sun), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 think	mark
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	ccomp
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 well	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 like	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stay	mark
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 like	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 country	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 country	det
14	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 country	amod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stay	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
20	so	so	ADV	_	19 said	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 lady	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lady	det
23	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lady	amod
24	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 answered	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 answered	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 answered	nsubj
28	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 disdain	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 disdain	det
31	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 disdain	amod
32	disdain	disdain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 answered	obl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	I				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	like	should	I			well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		this pleasant country		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
5	say speech: assert	past	I	the stately lady			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lady=Recipient
6	answer speech: assert	past	sun			with the greatest disdain	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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