The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 123

‘Give me a bushel of salt,’ said Esben, ‘and we shall see how matters go.’

Who acts: Esben, we, matters · What happens: give, say, see, go · To what, where: bushel, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben, we, matters), 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 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bushel	det
5	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 salt	case
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bushel	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 go	advmod
19	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 go	nsubj
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 see	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	infinitive		a bushel of salt	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bushel=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Esben			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	shall	we			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	present	matters			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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