The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 69

And the strong man answered: ‘Willingly, as long as you give me enough to eat and drink.’

Who acts: strong man, you · What happens: answer, give, eat, drink · 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 (strong man, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
8	Willingly	willingly	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Willingly	punct
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 answered	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 give	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
14	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 long	advcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 give	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 eat	mark
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 give	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drink	cc
20	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 eat	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the strong man		long property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	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			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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