The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 55

‘What reward wilt thou give me if I put it back in the bundle?’ asked the giant.

Who acts: thou, I · What happens: give, put back, ask · To what, where: me, Bad, bundle, giant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, I), 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	_	6 give	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 give	obj
3	reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
4	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 asked	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 put	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 put	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 bundle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bundle	det
15	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 giant	det
20	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 asked	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	present	thou		me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme
2	put back a condition, not said to happen	past	I	Bad		the bundle	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bundle=Destination
3	ask speech: ask	past		the giant			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient 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 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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