The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 7

“Will you give me your youngest daughter?” said the White Bear; “if you will, you shall be as rich as you are now poor.”

Who acts: you, White Bear · What happens: give, say, be · To what, where: youngest daughter, White Bear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, White Bear), 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	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 daughter	amod
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Bear	det
13	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Bear	amod
14	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 rich	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 rich	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 will	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 will	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 rich	aux
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 will	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 rich	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 rich	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 rich	cop
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 rich	advmod
25	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 give	conj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 poor	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 poor	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 poor	cop
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 poor	advmod
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rich	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	future	you	your youngest daughter	the White Bear = bear			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient daughter=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	the White Bear					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	shall · future	you				rich property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	you			now	poor property	tree rules

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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