The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 85

‘Nay, but I will give them to him, and such a horse and armour and weapons as he has never had yet, though I know not what use they will be to him.

Who acts: I, Owen, maidens · What happens: give, not have, not know, use, be · To what, where: maidens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Owen, maidens), 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	_	7 give	punct
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	7 give	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 give	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 horse	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 horse	cc
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 horse	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 armour	cc
17	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 horse	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 weapons	cc
19	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 horse	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 had	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 had	advmod
24	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 give	advcl
25	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 had	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 know	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
29	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 give	parataxis
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 know	advmod
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 use	nsubj
32	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 know	ccomp
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 him	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 him	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 him	cop
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 use	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	maidens = maiden		to Owen	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Recipient
2	not have	present · perfect	Owen		yet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	use	infinitive					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	future	maidens = maiden			to Owen	tree rules

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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