The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 200
“What will you give me if I spin it for you?” asked the manikin.
Who acts: you, manikin · What happens: give, spin, ask · To what, where: manikin, straw · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, manikin), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 give | obj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 spin | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 spin | nsubj |
| 9 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spin | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 spin | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 manikin | det |
| 17 | manikin | manikin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | you | the manikin = manikin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spin a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the manikin = manikin | straw | for you | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Result for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the manikin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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