The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 74

‘This will I tell Gwrnach the giant, and I will bring thee his answer.’

Who acts: This, I, Gwrnach · What happens: tell, bring, answer · To what, where: giant, Gwrnach, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I, Gwrnach), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Gwrnach	Gwrnach	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bring	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bring	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 bring	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bring	aux
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
14	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 bring	obj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 answer	nmod:poss
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	This	the giant	Gwrnach	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent gwrnach=Recipient giant=Topic
2	bring	future	I	thee		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination answer=Theme
3	answer		Gwrnach			nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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