The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 45
And he said he would gladly do that, and so he gave her a piece of the bannock; and for that she gied him a magical wand, that she said might yet be of service to him if he took care to use it rightly.
Who acts: man, woman · What happens: say, do, give, gi, be, take · To what, where: that, piece, woman, man, wand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, woman), 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 | And | and | 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 do | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 7 do | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 gave | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 piece | det |
| 16 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bannock | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bannock | det |
| 19 | bannock | bannock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piece | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 gied | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gied | cc |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 that | case |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 gied | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gied | nsubj |
| 25 | gied | gi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gied | obj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 wand | det |
| 28 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wand | amod |
| 29 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gied | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 said | punct |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 said | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 said | nsubj |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 gied | conj |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 service | aux |
| 35 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 38 service | advmod |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 service | cop |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 service | case |
| 38 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 said | ccomp |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 said | obl |
| 41 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 took | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 took | nsubj |
| 43 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 said | ccomp |
| 44 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 took | ccomp |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 use | mark |
| 46 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 care | xcomp |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 use | obj |
| 48 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 46 use | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | would | man | that | gladly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | give | past | man | a piece of the bannock | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 4 | gi | past | woman | man | for that | tree rules | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | woman | man | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is | might | yet | of service | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | take a condition, not said to happen | past | man | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 8 | care | infinitive | man not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | use | to-infinitive | man not said here | wand | rightly property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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