The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 134

‘Dear me, yes, and as much more as you want,’ answered he.

Who acts: you · What happens: want, answer · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	2 Dear	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 answered	parataxis
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Dear	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yes	punct
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Dear	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 more	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 more	cc
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Dear	conj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 want	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
13	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 more	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 answered	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	answer speech: assert	past			man				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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