The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 52

“Why, I would gladly give her two thousand!” cried he, “for she has saved my daughter.”

Who acts: Masilo, Thakane · What happens: give, cry, save · To what, where: two thousand, Thakane, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Masilo, Thakane), 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	_	7 give	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 give	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
6	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	7 give	advmod
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cried	parataxis
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 thousand	compound
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 give	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cried	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saved	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 saved	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 saved	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saved	nsubj
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 saved	aux
20	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cried	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 daughter	nmod:poss
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saved	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	would	Masilo	two thousand	Thakane	gladly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient thousand=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	Masilo				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	save in a quote	present · perfect	Thakane	my daughter			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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