The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 43

“I am very lean and small now,” he said, “hardly worth the trouble of cooking; but if you were to keep me two days, and gave me plenty of food, I should get big and fat.

Who acts: ball, you · What happens: be, say, keep, give, get, trouble · To what, where: ball, plenty, cooking · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, 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	_	5 lean	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 lean	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lean	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 lean	advmod
5	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 small	cc
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lean	conj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 lean	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lean	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 lean	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 worth	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 worth	punct
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	16 worth	advmod
16	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trouble	det
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 worth	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 cooking	case
20	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trouble	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 keep	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 keep	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 keep	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 keep	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 keep	aux
26	to	to	PART	_	27 keep	mark
27	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 keep	obj
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 days	nummod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 keep	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gave	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gave	cc
33	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 gave	iobj
35	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 food	case
37	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 plenty	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 get	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 get	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 get	aux
41	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 gave	conj
42	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 get	xcomp
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 fat	cc
44	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 big	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	ball			now	lean property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		ball not said here					tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	ball					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	keep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	ball		day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	give in a quote	past	ball not said here	plenty of food	ball			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient plenty=Theme
6	get in a quote	should	ball				big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	trouble in a quote			cooking				nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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