The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 43

'What can I give you?' he cried, holding out both hands to the man who had worked this wonder. '

Who acts: I, king, man · What happens: give, cry, hold out, work · To what, where: you, hands, wonder

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king, man), 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	_	5 give	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 give	obj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	parataxis
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 holding	punct
12	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cried	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 holding	compound:prt
14	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 hands	det
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 holding	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 holding	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 worked	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 worked	aux
21	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 man	acl:relcl
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 wonder	det
23	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 worked	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	can	I		you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	king				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hold out	gerund	king not said here	both hands		to the man	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	work	past · perfect	the man	this wonder			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent wonder=Material

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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