The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 42

‘We will give you any price you like.’

Who acts: We, you · What happens: give, like · To what, where: price, you

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 price	det
7	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
9	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 price	acl:relcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	future	We	any price	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient price=Theme
2	like	present	you	any price not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot price=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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