The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 27

‘Oh! if you only would thrown me down some of those delicious things, I should be so grateful,’ answered the shark.

Who acts: I · What happens: throw down, be, answer · To what, where: you, shark

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	8 thrown	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 thrown	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 thrown	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 thrown	nsubj:pass
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 thrown	advmod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 thrown	aux
8	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 thrown	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 thrown	compound:prt
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 thrown	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 things	case
13	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 things	det
14	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 things	amod
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 some	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grateful	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 grateful	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 grateful	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 grateful	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 grateful	advmod
21	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thrown	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thrown	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 thrown	punct
24	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thrown	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 shark	det
26	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 answered	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thrown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw down	would · passive		you		tree rules
2	is	should	I		grateful property	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past		the shark		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shark=Eventuality

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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