The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 21

“Why, you gave it to me to make cakes of!” cried the mother.

Who acts: you, mother · What happens: give, make, cry · To what, where: notice, mother, cakes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mother), 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	_	15 cried	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 gave	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cried	parataxis
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 gave	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gave	advcl
11	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 cakes	nmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mother	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cried	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give in a quote	past	you	notice	the mother = mother	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient
2	make in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	cakes		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product
3	cry speech: express	past	the mother			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: 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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