More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 49

Then she threatened to "give him the stick," but it was no use.

Who acts: wind, bed · What happens: threaten, give, be · To what, where: stick, boy, use

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (wind, bed), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 threatened	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threatened	nsubj
3	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 threatened	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stick	det
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stick	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 stick	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 use	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 use	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 use	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 use	det
16	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threatened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	threaten	past	wind			then	tree rules
2	give not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	wind not said here	the stick	boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stick=Theme
3	is a	past	bed	no use			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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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