The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 13
‘First,’ answered the Giant, ‘bring me my money bags, that I may count my golden pieces before I sleep.’
Who acts: I · What happens: answer, bring, count, sleep · To what, where: Giant, money bags, me, golden pieces
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 answered | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 First | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Giant | det |
| 7 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | obj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bags | nmod:poss |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bags | compound |
| 14 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bring | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 count | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 count | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 count | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 count | aux |
| 19 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bring | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pieces | nmod:poss |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pieces | amod |
| 22 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 count | obj |
| 23 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 sleep | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 sleep | nsubj |
| 25 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 count | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Giant | first property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | my money bags | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination bag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | count | may | I | my golden pieces | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sleep | present | I | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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