The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 80
“Oh, very well; but I wish you would give me some fruit,” replied he.
Who acts: fox, you · What happens: wish, give, reply · To what, where: fruit, fox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, 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 | _ | 18 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 wish | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 wish | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 replied | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wish | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 fruit | det |
| 15 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 replied | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | fox | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | would | you | some fruit | fox | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient fruit=Theme | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | fox | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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