The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 150
“Well, then, I will give you money and plenty of it, if you will only do as I tell you.
Who acts: old woman, you · What happens: give, do, tell · To what, where: money, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (old woman, 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 | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 give | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 give | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 plenty | cc |
| 12 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 money | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 plenty | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 do | advmod |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 give | conj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 tell | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | advcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | iobj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | the old woman = woman | money and plenty of plenty | you | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient money=Theme | ||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | the old woman = woman | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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