The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 64

‘But as you wish for it so much, well, I suppose I can’t refuse,’ and he held out the whistle, which the eldest brother put in his pocket.

Who acts: you, I, treasure, whistle · What happens: wish, suppose, not refuse, hold out, brother, put · To what, where: whistle, eldest brother, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, treasure, whistle), 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 wish	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 wish	cc
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 wish	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wish	nsubj
5	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wish	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	5 wish	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 suppose	punct
11	well	well	INTJ	_	14 suppose	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 well	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 suppose	nsubj
14	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wish	conj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 refuse	nsubj
16	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 refuse	aux
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 refuse	advmod
18	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 suppose	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 refuse	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 refuse	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 held	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 held	nsubj
23	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 refuse	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 held	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 whistle	det
26	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 held	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 brother	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 brother	nsubj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 brother	det
30	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 brother	amod
31	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 whistle	conj
32	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 brother	acl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 pocket	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 pocket	nmod:poss
35	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	present	you			for whistle	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for it=Theme
2	suppose	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not refuse	can	I				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	hold out	past	treasure	the whistle and the eldest brother			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme
5	brother		the whistle and the eldest brother				tree rules
6	put	participle		the eldest brother not said here	treasure's pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pocket=Destination

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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