The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 265
‘Well, then,’ he replied, ‘give it to me, because I can’t live without Snowdrop.
Who acts: last, I · What happens: reply, give, not live · To what, where: Gold, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 replied | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 give | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 live | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 live | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 live | nsubj |
| 18 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 live | aux |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 live | advmod |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 give | conj |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 Snowdrop | case |
| 22 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 live | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | last | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | Gold | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not live | can | I | without Snowdrop | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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