The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 2
'We will give you our daughter,' said they, 'if you can pay a good price for her.
Who acts: We, parents, you · What happens: give, say, pay · To what, where: daughter, good price · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, parents, 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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ' | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 pay | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 pay | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 pay | aux |
| 17 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ' | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 price | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 price | amod |
| 20 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pay | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 price | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | We | our daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | parents = parent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pay a condition, not said to happen | can | you | a good price | for wife | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent price=Asset for she=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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