The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 61
And the man answered: ‘If you will give me enough to eat and drink I will gladly stay with you.’
Who acts: man, you, I · What happens: answer, give, eat, drink, stay · To what, where: me
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 (man, you, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 give | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 give | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drink | cc |
| 16 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 eat | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 stay | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 stay | aux |
| 19 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 20 stay | advmod |
| 20 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 drink | ccomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 stay | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | enough property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stay | future | I | with you; gladly property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location |
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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