The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 21

Then they ate and drank, and when they had finished the little man said: ‘Now I will bring you luck, because you have a kind heart and are willing to share what you have with others.

Who acts: cake, little man, I, you · What happens: eat, drink, finish, say, bring, have · To what, where: luck, you, kind heart · 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 (cake, little man, I, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ate	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drank	cc
5	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 finished	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 finished	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 finished	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 finished	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 finished	aux
11	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 ate	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 finished	parataxis
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 bring	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 bring	punct
18	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 bring	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bring	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bring	aux
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ate	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obj
23	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bring	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 have	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 bring	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 heart	det
29	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 heart	amod
30	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 willing	cc
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 willing	cop
33	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 have	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 share	mark
35	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 willing	xcomp
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 share	obj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 have	nsubj
38	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 what	acl:relcl
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 others	case
40	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 have	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	cake			then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	past	cake not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	finish	past · perfect	cake					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	the little man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	bring	future	I	luck	you	now		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination luck=Theme
6	have	present	you	a kind heart				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
7	is	present	you not said here				willing property	tree rules
8	share	to-infinitive	you not said here					tree rules
9	have	present	you				with others	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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