The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 98

‘Give me the youngest instead,’ replied the youth, and the giant’s face darkened as he heard him.

Who acts: you, face · What happens: give, reply, darken, hear · To what, where: youngest, youth

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 (you, face), 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youngest	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 Give	iobj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	2 Give	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Give	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 darkened	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 darkened	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 giant	det
15	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 face	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 giant	case
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 darkened	nsubj
18	darkened	darken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Give	parataxis
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 heard	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 darkened	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here		the youngest	instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient young=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past		the youth			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic
3	darken	participle	the giant's face				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	hear	past	face	youth			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: 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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