The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 151

‘Choose your prize,’ said the king, when the game was ended, ‘but do not be too hard on me, or ask what I cannot give.’

Who acts: game, I · What happens: choose, say, be, not be, ask, not give · To what, where: prize, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, 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	_	2 Choose	punct
2	Choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 prize	nmod:poss
4	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Choose	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Choose	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ended	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 ended	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 game	det
13	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ended	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ended	cop
15	ended	ended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 king	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hard	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 hard	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 hard	cc
19	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 hard	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 hard	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 hard	cop
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 hard	advmod
23	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ended	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hard	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ask	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 ask	cc
28	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 hard	parataxis
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 give	obj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 give	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 give	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 give	advmod
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ask	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choose	infinitive		your prize		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the king		tree rules
3	is	past	the game		ended property	tree rules
4	not is	infinitive · do-support	the game not said here		on me; hard property	tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not give	can	I			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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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