The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 25

‘That is a great quantity,’ says the Queen; ‘but the reason must be extraordinary, and before I want it, I will give you all you demand.’

Who acts: That, Queen, reason, I, you · What happens: be, say, want, give, demand · To what, where: great quantity, reason, all, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Queen, reason, 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	_	6 quantity	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 quantity	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quantity	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 quantity	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quantity	amod
6	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 quantity	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 extraordinary	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 extraordinary	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 extraordinary	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reason	det
16	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 extraordinary	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 extraordinary	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 extraordinary	cop
19	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 says	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 give	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 give	cc
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 want	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
24	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 give	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 want	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 give	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 give	aux
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 extraordinary	parataxis
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 give	iobj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 give	obj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 demand	nsubj
33	demand	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 all	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 extraordinary	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 extraordinary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a great quantity			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the Queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	must	the reason			extraordinary property	tree rules
4	want	present	I	reason			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	give	future	I	all	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient all=Theme
6	demand speech: request	present	you				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: 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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