The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 25

‘Ah, master, give us work,’ they said, ‘so that we may earn our bread.’

Who acts: you, preparations, we · What happens: give, say, earn · To what, where: work, us, bread · Speech: someone speaks here

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, preparations, we), 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 give	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 give	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 master	punct
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ah	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ‘	punct
14	‘	‘	SYM	_	12 said	ccomp
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 earn	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 earn	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 earn	aux
19	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bread	nmod:poss
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 earn	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	work	us	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient work=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	preparations = preparation			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	earn	may	we	our bread		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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