The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 19

And Dullhead replied: ‘I’ve only got a cinder-cake and some sour beer, but if you care to have that, let us sit down and eat.’

Who acts: Dullhead, I, you, us · What happens: reply, get, care, have, let, sit down · To what, where: cinder cake, that, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullhead, I, you, us), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 replied	cc
2	Dullhead	Dullhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
7	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 got	aux
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 got	advmod
9	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 replied	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cake	det
11	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cake	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 cinder	punct
13	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beer	cc
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 beer	det
16	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 beer	amod
17	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cake	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 let	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 care	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 care	nsubj
22	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 let	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 have	mark
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 care	xcomp
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 have	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 care	punct
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	ccomp
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 sit	compound:prt
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 eat	cc
32	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sit	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Dullhead		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	present · perfect	I	a cinder cake and some sour beer	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cake=Stimulus
3	care a condition, not said to happen	present	you		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have	to-infinitive	you not said here	that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
5	let	infinitive		us	tree rules
6	sit down	infinitive	us not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	eat	present	us not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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