The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 7

‘And suppose I were to give you more pounds than Marzinne ever dreamed of?’ whispered the sorcerer glancing round to make sure that no one overheard him.

Who acts: I, Marzinne, sorcerer, one · What happens: suppose, give, dream, whisper, glance, make · To what, where: more pounds, you, sorcerer, Marzinne · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Marzinne, sorcerer, one), 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	_	3 suppose	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 suppose	cc
3	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 whispered	ccomp
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 suppose	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 pounds	amod
10	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 give	obj
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 dreamed	mark
12	Marzinne	Marzinne	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 dreamed	nsubj
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 dreamed	advmod
14	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 give	advcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 dreamed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct
18	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sorcerer	det
20	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 whispered	obj
21	glancing	glance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 sorcerer	acl
22	round	round	ADV	_	21 glancing	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 make	mark
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 glancing	advcl
25	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 make	xcomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 overheard	mark
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 overheard	nsubj
29	overheard	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sure	ccomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 overheard	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	present						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	give	past	I	more pounds	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient pound=Theme
3	dream	past	Marzinne			ever		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	whisper speech: assert	past		the sorcerer				tree rules
5	glance	gerund	the sorcerer not said here				round property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	make	to-infinitive	the sorcerer not said here				sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	overhear	past	no one	Marzinne				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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