The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 56
“Then stay with me, for I can give you plenty,” said the old man, and Peter stayed.
Who acts: old man, Peter · What happens: stay, give, say · To what, where: plenty, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Peter), 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 | _ | 3 stay | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stay | advmod |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stay | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stay | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stayed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stayed | cc |
| 21 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 stayed | nsubj |
| 22 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | infinitive | then | with the old man = man | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | can | the old man = man | plenty | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient plenty=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stay | past | Peter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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