The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 75

If you are invited to play at a feast, accept willingly, but beware of asking a fixed price; say you will take whatever they may feel inclined to give.

Who acts: you, money, whatever · What happens: invite, play, accept, beware, ask, fix · To what, where: you, feast, fixed price, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, money, whatever), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 invited	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 invited	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 invited	aux:pass
4	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 accept	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 play	mark
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 invited	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 feast	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feast	det
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 invited	punct
11	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	11 accept	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beware	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 beware	cc
15	beware	beware	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 accept	conj
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 asking	mark
17	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 beware	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 price	det
19	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 price	amod
20	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asking	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
22	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 accept	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 say	ccomp
26	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 feel	obj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 feel	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 feel	aux
29	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 take	advcl
30	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 feel	xcomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 give	mark
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 inclined	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 accept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	invite a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		you			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		a feast		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	accept	imperative	you not said here			willingly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	beware	infinitive	you not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	ask speech: ask	gerund	you not said here	a fixed price			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent price=Recipient
6	fix	participle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	take	future	you				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	feel	may	money	whatever		inclined property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme
10	give	to-infinitive	whatever not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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