The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 21

“Give them to me, then,” said he, holding out his hand.

Who acts: Sultan · What happens: give, say, hold out · To what, where: pieces, hand · 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), 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Give	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 holding	punct
13	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 holding	compound:prt
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holding	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	infinitive			pieces = piece	then	to Sultan	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Sultan					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hold out	gerund	Sultan not said here	Sultan's hand				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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