The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 46

But the Princess comforted him, and said she should be quite willing to go with Jack my Hedgehog whenever he came to fetch her, because of the great love she bore to her dear old father.

Who acts: Princess, Jack · What happens: comfort, say, be, go, come, fetch · To what, where: Jack, Hedgehog, Princess, great love · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Jack), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 comforted	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 comforted	nsubj
4	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 comforted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 comforted	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 willing	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 willing	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 willing	cop
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 willing	advmod
13	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 willing	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 Jack	case
17	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Hedgehog	nmod:poss
19	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
20	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 came	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 willing	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 fetch	mark
24	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 came	xcomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fetch	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 love	punct
27	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	31 love	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 because	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 love	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 love	amod
31	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fetch	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bore	nsubj
33	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 love	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	38 father	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 father	nmod:poss
36	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 father	amod
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 father	amod
38	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bore	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comforted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	comfort	past	the Princess	Jack		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the Princess not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	should	Princess		willing property	tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	my Hedgehog	with Jack	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with jack=Beneficiary
5	come	past	Jack		whenever property	tree rules
6	fetch	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	Princess	because the great love	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	bear	past	Princess	the great love not said here	to Princess's dear old father	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient

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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