The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 20

“I would give a thousand gold pieces to anyone who would tell me the truth about this,” cried he, and at the words Abu Nowas sat up.

Who acts: Sultan, words · What happens: give, tell, cry, sit up · To what, where: thousand gold pieces, anyone, truth, Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, words), 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	_	4 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cried	parataxis
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thousand	det
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pieces	nummod
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pieces	compound
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 anyone	case
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 pieces	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 tell	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 anyone	acl:relcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 truth	det
16	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 this	case
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 truth	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cried	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sat	cc
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 words	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 words	det
27	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sat	nsubj
28	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 words	appos
29	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Abu	flat
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cried	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 sat	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	would	Sultan	thousand gold pieces	anyone		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to anyone=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	would		the truth	Sultan	about this	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient truth=Topic
3	cry speech: express	past	Sultan				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sit up	past	the words				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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