More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 100

Well," said the courtier, "what will you give me if I find the twelfth man?"

Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, give, find · To what, where: courtier, me, twelfth man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 courtier	det
6	courtier	courtier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 give	obj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 find	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
16	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 give	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the courtier		tree rules
2	give	future	you		me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme
3	find a condition, not said to happen	present	I	the twelfth man		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic

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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