The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 96

‘I will give thee a ship which can sail over fresh water and salt water, over high hills and deep dales,’ answered the old woman.

Who acts: I, ship · What happens: give, sail, answer · To what, where: ship, high hills, fresh water, old woman

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 (I, ship), 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	_	4 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ship	det
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sail	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sail	aux
10	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ship	acl:relcl
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sail	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 water	cc
15	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 water	compound
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 water	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hills	punct
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 hills	case
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hills	amod
20	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	iobj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dales	cc
22	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dales	amod
23	dales	dale	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hills	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 answered	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 answered	punct
26	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 answered	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	future	I	a ship	high hills and deep dales		tree rules
2	sail	can	a ship			fresh water and salt water	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Trajectory
3	answer speech: assert	past			the old woman		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality

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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