The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 88
‘What will you give me to get your eye back?’ said Minnikin.
Who acts: you, Minnikin · What happens: give, get back, say · To what, where: me, eye · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (you, Minnikin), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 give | obj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | xcomp |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eye | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get back | to-infinitive | you not said here | your eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Minnikin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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