The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 101

‘If you will only give it to me,’ said the Princess, ‘I will give you anything you choose to ask for, for I cannot bear to see him in this state.’

Who acts: you, Princess, I · What happens: give, say, choose, ask, not bear, see · To what, where: spell, me, anything, you, teller, state · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Princess, I), 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	_	6 give	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 give	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Princess	det
14	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 give	obj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 choose	nsubj
23	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 anything	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 ask	mark
25	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 choose	xcomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	25 ask	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bear	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 bear	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 bear	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bear	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 bear	advmod
32	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ask	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 see	mark
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 bear	xcomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 state	case
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 state	det
38	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 see	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give a condition, not said to happen	future	you	spell	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	future	I	anything	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Theme
4	choose	present	you				tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not bear	can	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	see	to-infinitive	I not said here	teller		this state	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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