English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 40

Kate said the prince had a good night; but she would not sit up another night unless she was to get a peck of gold.

Who acts: Kate, prince · What happens: say, have, not sit up, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kate, prince), 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	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 night	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 sit	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 sit	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sit	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sit	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 sit	advmod
14	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 sit	compound:prt
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sit	obl:unmarked
18	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	22 get	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 get	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 get	cop
21	to	to	PART	_	22 get	mark
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sit	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 peck	det
24	peck	peck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 gold	case
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 peck	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	the prince	night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not sit up	would	Kate	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Kate		get property	tree rules

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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