The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 4

‘I am afraid if I do that the hole will show,’ replied Ciccu, but as he was very good-natured he gave him one.

Who acts: I, hole, Ciccu · What happens: be, do, show, reply, nature, give · To what, where: Ciccu, one, hole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hole, Ciccu), 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	_	4 afraid	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 replied	ccomp
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 do	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	ccomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 show	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hole	det
10	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 show	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 show	aux
12	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 do	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
15	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 replied	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 natured	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 natured	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 natured	aux:pass
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 good	advmod
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 natured	ccomp
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 good	punct
25	natured	nature	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 gave	advcl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	nsubj
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 replied	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	iobj
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 gave	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			afraid property	tree rules
2	do a condition, not said to happen	present	I				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	show	future	the hole				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reply speech: assert	past	Ciccu				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	nature	past · passive		Ciccu			tree rules
6	give	past	Ciccu	one	hole		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient one=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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