The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 5
But this clever son replied: ‘If I give you my cake and wine I shall have none left for myself; you just go your own way;’ and he left the little man standing there and went further on into the forest.
Who acts: clever son, I, cake, you, youngest, little man · What happens: reply, give, have, leave, go, stand · To what, where: you, none, own way, little man, forest
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 (clever son, I, cake, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 replied | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 son | det |
| 3 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 8 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cake | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wine | cc |
| 15 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cake | conj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 give | acl:relcl |
| 19 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 none | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 myself | case |
| 22 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 left | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 go | nsubj |
| 25 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | conj |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 way | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 way | amod |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 left | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 left | nsubj |
| 34 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 man | amod |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 left | obj |
| 38 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 man | acl |
| 39 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 standing | advmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 went | cc |
| 41 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 left | conj |
| 42 | further | further | ADV | _ | 43 on | advmod |
| 43 | on | on | ADV | _ | 41 went | advmod |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 forest | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 forest | det |
| 46 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 went | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | this clever son | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give a condition, not said to happen | present | I | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | my cake and wine | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | for myself | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for myself=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | go | present | you | your own way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | leave | past | youngest = young | the little man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 7 | stand | gerund | the little man not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | go | past | youngest = young not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location |
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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