The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 63

But he said he would never give them the eye till they told him the way to the Fairies of the Garden.

Who acts: boy, eyes · What happens: say, not give, tell · To what, where: eye, eyes, way, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, eyes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 give	advmod
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eye	det
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 told	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 give	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 Fairies	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Fairies	det
19	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 way	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Garden	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Garden	det
22	Garden	Garden	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Fairies	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not give	would	boy	the eye	eyes = eye		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient eye=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	eyes = eye	the way	boy	to the Fairies of the Garden	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=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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