The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 13

“There, that is all I can give you; if you don’t like it, go out and catch frogs; there are plenty of them in the marsh close by.”

Who acts: all, you, plenty · What happens: give, not like, go out, catch, be · To what, where: you, shell, frogs, marsh

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, you, plenty), 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	_	9 give	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 give	expl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 all	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 all	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 all	cop
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 give	nsubj:outer
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 give	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 like	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 like	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 like	advmod
16	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 give	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 like	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 like	conj
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 catch	cc
22	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 go	conj
23	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 catch	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 are	punct
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 are	expl
26	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 like	conj
27	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 are	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 plenty	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 marsh	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 marsh	det
32	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 are	obl
33	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 marsh	amod
34	by	by	ADP	_	33 close	fixed
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	can	all		you	there		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	not like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	you	shell				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	go out in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	catch in a quote	present	you not said here	frogs				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme
5	be in a quote	present	plenty of frogs			the marsh; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in marsh=Location

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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