The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 82
‘Why not?’ he answered; ‘I have brought two heads with me, and will give you one.’
Who acts: Countryman, I · What happens: not answer, bring, give · To what, where: two heads, one, you
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 (Countryman, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 answered | advmod |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 answered | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 not | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | aux |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 heads | nummod |
| 14 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brought | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 brought | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 give | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | past | Countryman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect | I | two heads | with me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | future | I not said here | one | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=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 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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