The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 118

‘Caw, caw!’ he said, ‘I am to give you her love, and here is a little roll for you.

Who acts: Kay, princess · What happens: say, give, be, love · To what, where: love, you, little roll · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, princess), 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 Caw	punct
2	Caw	caw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 caw	punct
4	caw	caw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Caw	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Caw	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Caw	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 am	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 am	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 am	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 give	mark
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 am	xcomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 love	nmod:poss
17	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 roll	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 roll	cc
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 roll	advmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 roll	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 roll	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 roll	amod
24	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 roll	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kay					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	give	to-infinitive	Kay not said here	princess's love	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient love=Theme
3	is a	present		a little roll		here	for you	tree rules
4	love		princess					nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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