The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 65
‘Well, if you will give me a bit of your dinner I won’t do you any mischief,’ said he.
Who acts: you, I, fellow · What happens: give, not do, say · To what, where: me, bit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, fellow), 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 | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 give | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bit | det |
| 10 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 dinner | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bit | nmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 15 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 do | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 mischief | det |
| 20 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not do | future | I | a bit of your dinner | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | fellow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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