The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 101

If you will take them, give them food and stabling, and do as I tell you with them, I will pay you as much as you want.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: take, give, stable, do, tell, pay · To what, where: animals, food, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. 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), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 take	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 pay	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stabling	cc
11	stabling	stable	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 food	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 do	cc
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	conj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 tell	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	nsubj
17	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 do	advcl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 pay	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 pay	aux
24	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 pay	obj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pay	obj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 want	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 want	nsubj
30	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 much	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 pay	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 pay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take a condition, not said to happen	future	you	animals = animal			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	give	infinitive	you not said here	food	animals = animal		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=Theme
3	stable	gerund	you not said here				vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	present	you not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	present	I		you	with animals = animal	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	pay	future	I		you		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient much=Asset
7	want	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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