The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 51
‘If you wish it, I will,’ said the hermit, ‘on condition that you will give me half of anything you get.’
Who acts: you · What happens: wish, say, give, get · To what, where: wish, hermit, half, me · 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), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 wish | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 will | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hermit | det |
| 13 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 condition | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 condition | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 condition | case |
| 17 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hermit | appos |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 give | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 give | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 give | aux |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 condition | acl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 21 give | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 anything | case |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 half | nmod |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 get | nsubj |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 anything | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | wish | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the hermit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hermit=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | future | you | half of anything | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient half=Theme | |||
| 4 | get | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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