The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 20

‘Well, here is a purse; take it and say to it, “Dear purse, give me some money,” and you will get as much as you can want But the charm will only work if you promise to remain three years, three months, and three days without washing and without combing and without shaving your beard or changing your clothes.

Who acts: purse, you, charm, three days · What happens: be, take, say, give, get, want · To what, where: purse, Dear purse, money, Don, much, beard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purse, you, charm, three days), 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 here	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 here	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 take	parataxis
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 purse	det
7	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 here	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 take	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 purse	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 purse	punct
17	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 purse	amod
18	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 take	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 money	det
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 money	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 get	cc
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 get	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 get	aux
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 take	conj
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 get	obj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 want	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 want	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 want	aux
35	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 much	acl
36	But	but	CCONJ	_	41 work	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 charm	det
38	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 work	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 work	aux
40	only	only	ADV	_	41 work	advmod
41	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 get	conj
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 promise	mark
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 promise	nsubj
44	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 work	advcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 remain	mark
46	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 promise	ccomp
47	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 years	nummod
48	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 remain	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 months	punct
50	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 months	nummod
51	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 years	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 washing	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 washing	cc
54	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 days	nummod
55	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 washing	nsubj
56	without	without	SCONJ	_	57 washing	mark
57	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 get	parataxis
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 combing	cc
59	without	without	SCONJ	_	60 combing	mark
60	combing	comb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 washing	conj
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 shaving	cc
62	without	without	SCONJ	_	63 shaving	mark
63	shaving	shave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 washing	conj
64	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 beard	nmod:poss
65	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 shaving	obj
66	or	or	CCONJ	_	67 changing	cc
67	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	63 shaving	conj
68	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 clothes	nmod:poss
69	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	67 changing	obj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a purse				here property	tree rules
2	take	imperative	you not said here	purse				vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	Dear purse	purse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient
4	give in a quote	infinitive		some money	the Don = don			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient money=Theme
5	get	future	you	much				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
6	want	can	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	work	future	the charm					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	remain not said to happen	to-infinitive				year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	wash	gerund	three days					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	comb	gerund	three days not said here					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
12	shave	gerund	three days not said here	your beard				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient
13	change	gerund	three days not said here	your clothes				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient

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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