The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 114

Who would give three straws for such a miserable little thing?

What happens: give · To what, where: three straws

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 give	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 straws	nummod
5	straws	straw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	11 thing	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 thing	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thing	det
9	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would		three straws				for such miserable little thing	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent straw=Theme for thing=Asset

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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