Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 33

"But if I give it to you now, perhaps you will believe me," said the king; and he put the gold piece into the little fellow's hand.

Who acts: king, you · What happens: give, believe, say, put · To what, where: piece, you, king, gold piece, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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	_	18 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 believe	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 give	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 believe	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	obl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 give	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	14 believe	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 believe	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 believe	aux
14	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	parataxis
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 believe	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 believe	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 believe	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	nsubj
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 piece	det
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 piece	compound
27	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	33 hand	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fellow	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fellow	amod
31	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hand	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 fellow	case
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the king = king	piece	you		now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient
2	believe in a quote	future	you	the king = king				perhaps property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	put	past	king	the gold piece		the little fellow's hand			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal

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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