Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 16

"Yes," she said, "I will give you some supper if you will watch these cakes.

Who acts: wom, you · What happens: say, give, watch · To what, where: supper, you, cakes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wom, you), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 supper	det
14	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 watch	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 watch	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 watch	aux
18	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 give	advcl
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 cakes	det
20	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 watch	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wom			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	future	wom	some supper	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient supper=Theme
3	watch a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	this cakes		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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