The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 88
'That is true,' answered the giant; 'but I am not so foolish as to give you that crown for nothing.
Who acts: That, I · What happens: be, answer, not be, give · To what, where: giant, crown, you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, I), 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 true | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 foolish | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 foolish | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 foolish | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 foolish | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 foolish | advmod |
| 17 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 true | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 give | mark |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 give | mark |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 foolish | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 crown | det |
| 23 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 nothing | case |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 give | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the giant | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | I | foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | I not said here | that crown | you | for nothing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient crown=Theme for nothing=Asset |
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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