The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 72

The only thing I can do for you is to offer to give up my snow-shoes altogether if you will throw me down one of your young ones in exchange.”

Who acts: I, only thing, you · What happens: do, be, give up, throw down · To what, where: only thing, snow shoes, me

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, only thing, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offer	nsubj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thing	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 do	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 offer	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 offer	mark
11	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 give	mark
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 offer	xcomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 give	compound:prt
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shoes	nmod:poss
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shoes	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 snow	punct
18	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 give	obj
19	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	13 give	advmod
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 throw	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 throw	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 throw	aux
23	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 give	advcl
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 throw	obj
25	down	down	ADP	_	23 throw	compound:prt
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 throw	obl:unmarked
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 ones	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ones	nmod:poss
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ones	amod
30	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 exchange	case
32	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ones	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 offer	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 offer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	can	I	the only thing not said here	for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	is	present	the only thing		offer property	tree rules
3	give up not said to happen	to-infinitive	the only thing not said here	my snow shoes	altogether property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Source
4	throw down a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me	one of your young ones in exchange obl:unmarked	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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: «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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