The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 50

But she answered: ‘No, I won’t, it’s hardly enough for myself; so catch me giving you any.’

Who acts: first · What happens: answer, catch, give · To what, where: me, any, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
6	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 wo	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 No	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 wo	nsubj
9	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ‘	aux
10	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 wo	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wo	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ’s	nsubj
13	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wo	acl:relcl
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	13 ’s	advmod
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 hardly	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 myself	case
17	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 hardly	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 catch	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 catch	advmod
20	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 catch	obj
22	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 catch	advcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 giving	iobj
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 giving	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 catch	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 catch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	first			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	catch	infinitive	first not said here	me		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	give	gerund	first not said here	any	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient any=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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