The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 142

‘Well, madam! will you wager your thimble and your golden needle that I am bringing you the best news you could possibly hear?’

Who acts: you, thimble · What happens: wager, bring, hear · To what, where: thimble, best news, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thimble), 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	_	8 wager	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 wager	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Well	vocative
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 wager	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 wager	nsubj
8	wager	wager	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 thimble	nmod:poss
10	thimble	thimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wager	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 needle	cc
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 needle	nmod:poss
13	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 needle	amod
14	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thimble	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 bringing	nsubj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 bringing	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bringing	aux
18	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 thimble	acl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 bringing	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 news	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 news	amod
22	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bringing	obj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 hear	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hear	aux
25	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	26 hear	advmod
26	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 news	acl:relcl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 wager	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 wager	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wager	future	you	your thimble and your golden needle			vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thimble=Recipient
2	bring	present · progressive	your thimble and your golden needle	the best news	you		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination news=Theme
3	hear	could	you	the best news not said here		possibly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=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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