The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 76

‘And even had you lost two of them,’ answered her mother, ‘I would give you finer ones.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: have, lose, answer, give · To what, where: two, mother, finer ones, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 lost	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lost	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 two	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	parataxis
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	obj
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	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 answered	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 ones	amod
22	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 give	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lost	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	past	you not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	lose	past	you	two of posts		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Eventuality
3	answer speech: assert	past			daughter's mother	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality
4	give	would	I	finer ones	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient one=Theme

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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