The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 12

“I will give you for a gift,” continued the Fairy, “that, at every word you speak, there shall come out of your mouth either a flower or a jewel.”

Who acts: good woman, you · What happens: give, continue, speak, come out · To what, where: you, Fairy, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good woman, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 continued	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 gift	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gift	det
8	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
11	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fairy	det
13	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 continued	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 word	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 word	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 word	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 word	punct
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 word	case
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 word	det
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Fairy	appos
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 speak	nsubj
22	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 word	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 come	expl
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 continued	parataxis
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 mouth	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mouth	nmod:poss
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
31	either	either	CCONJ	_	33 flower	cc:preconj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 flower	det
33	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mouth	conj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 jewel	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 jewel	det
36	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flower	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	future	the good woman = woman		you		for a gift	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme for gift=Asset
2	continue	past		the Fairy				tree rules
3	speak speech: other in a quote	present	you	every word not said here				tree rules
4	come out in a quote	shall				there	of your mouth either a flower or a jewel; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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