The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 12

‘I quite agree with you,’ answered the second brother, ‘and my advice is to eat up his loaf of bread, and then to refuse to give him a bit of ours until he has promised to let us put out his eyes or break his legs.’

Who acts: I, advice, Ferko, us · What happens: agree, answer, be, refuse, not give, promise · To what, where: second brother, bit, Ferko, us, eyes, legs

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (I, advice, Ferko, us), 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 agree	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 agree	nsubj
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 agree	advmod
4	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 agree	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 agree	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brother	det
11	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 brother	amod
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ‘	punct
14	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brother	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 eat	cc
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 advice	nmod:poss
17	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 eat	cop
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 eat	compound:prt
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 loaf	nmod:poss
23	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 bread	case
25	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 loaf	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 refuse	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 refuse	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 refuse	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 refuse	mark
30	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 agree	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 give	mark
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 refuse	xcomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 give	iobj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bit	det
35	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 ours	case
37	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 bit	nmod
38	until	until	SCONJ	_	41 promised	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 promised	nsubj
40	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 promised	aux
41	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 give	advcl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 let	mark
43	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 promised	xcomp
44	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 let	obj
45	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 let	xcomp
46	out	out	ADP	_	45 put	compound:prt
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 eyes	nmod:poss
48	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 put	obj
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 break	cc
50	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 put	conj
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 legs	nmod:poss
52	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 break	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 agree	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 agree	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	I				with you	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent
2	answer speech: assert	past			the second brother and ‘			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality
3	is	present	my advice				eat property	tree rules
4	refuse	to-infinitive	I not said here			then		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not give	to-infinitive	I not said here	a bit of ours	Ferko			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bit=Theme
6	promise speech: promise	present · perfect	Ferko					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ferko not said here	us				tree rules
8	put out	infinitive	us not said here	Ferko's eyes				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal
9	break	infinitive	us not said here	Ferko's legs				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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 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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