The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 211

When the girl was alone the little man appeared for the third time, and said: “What’ll you give me if I spin the straw for you once again?”

Who acts: girl, little man, you · What happens: be, appear, say, give, spin · To what, where: little man, 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 (girl, little man, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 alone	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alone	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 alone	cop
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 appeared	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appeared	nsubj
9	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appeared	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 appeared	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 give	obj
20	’ll	'll	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 spin	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 spin	nsubj
26	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 give	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 straw	det
28	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spin	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 spin	obl
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 spin	advmod
32	again	again	ADV	_	22 give	advmod
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the girl				alone property	tree rules
2	appear	past	the little man			time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: ask	past	the little man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give in a quote	present	you		the little man = man	again		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme
5	spin a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the little man = man	the straw			for you; once property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent straw=Result for you=Beneficiary

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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