More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 31
"You've done better for yourself than you know," answered the fairy, "and to show I'm not ungrateful, I'll grant you your next three wishes, be they what they may."
Who acts: You, fairy, your · What happens: do, know, answer, show, not be, grant · To what, where: next three wishes, you, Wishes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, fairy, your), 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 | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 answered | advcl |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 done | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 yourself | case |
| 7 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 done | obl |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 know | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fairy | det |
| 15 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 show | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 show | mark |
| 20 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 answered | conj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 ungrateful | nsubj |
| 22 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 ungrateful | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 ungrateful | advmod |
| 24 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 show | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 grant | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 grant | nsubj |
| 27 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 grant | aux |
| 28 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ungrateful | parataxis |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 grant | obj |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 wishes | amod |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 wishes | nummod |
| 33 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 grant | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 they | punct |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 they | cop |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 show | ccomp |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 they | obj |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 may | nsubj |
| 39 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 what | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 show | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect | You | for yourself; good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the fairy | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | show in a quote | to-infinitive | the fairy not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | present | the fairy = fairy | ungrateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | grant in a quote | future | the fairy = fairy | your next three wishes | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal wish=Theme | |||
| 7 | is a in a quote | infinitive | Wishes = wish | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | wish in a quote | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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: «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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