Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 92

"Oh, no; oh, no," cried the sexton; "I will give you a whole bushel full of money if you will let me go.

Who acts: sexton, you · What happens: cry, give, let, go · To what, where: whole bushel, you, sexton · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sexton, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	11 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 Oh	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
8	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sexton	det
13	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cried	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bushel	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bushel	amod
22	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
23	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bushel	amod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 money	case
25	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 full	obl
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 let	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 let	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 let	aux
29	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 give	advcl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 let	obj
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 let	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the sexton			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give in a quote	future	the sexton = sexton	a whole bushel	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bushel=Theme
3	let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	the sexton = sexton		tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive	the sexton = sexton not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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