The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 34

“Well, then, since you have so little breeding, and are so disobliging, I give you for a gift that at every word you speak there shall come out of your mouth a snake or a toad.”

Who acts: you, Fairy, gift · What happens: have, disoblige, give, speak, come out · To what, where: little breeding, you, word, snake · 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 (you, Fairy, gift), 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	_	19 give	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 have	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 have	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 have	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 give	advcl
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 breeding	amod
11	breeding	breeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 disobliging	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 disobliging	cc
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 disobliging	aux
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 disobliging	advmod
16	disobliging	disoblige	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 have	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
19	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 gift	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gift	det
23	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 come	nsubj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 word	case
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 word	det
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 speak	nsubj
29	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 word	acl:relcl
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 speak	advmod
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 gift	acl:relcl
33	out	out	ADV	_	32 come	advmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 mouth	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mouth	nmod:poss
36	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 snake	det
38	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 toad	cc
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 toad	det
41	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 snake	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	you	little breeding			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breeding=Patient
2	disoblige in a quote	present · progressive	you not said here						tree rules
3	give in a quote	present	the Fairy = fairy		you			for a gift	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme for gift=Asset
4	speak speech: other in a quote	present	you	every word not said here		there			tree rules
5	come out in a quote	shall	a gift	a snake or a toad		every word		of your mouth; 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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