The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 60
‘Oh, yes, your Majesty,’ answered he, ‘give me as much as my servant can carry, and I will give up your daughter.’
Who acts: Majesty, servant, I · What happens: answer, give, carry, give up · To what, where: King, much, me, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (Majesty, servant, 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 Majesty | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 Majesty | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 Majesty | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Majesty | punct |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Majesty | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Majesty | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 give | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 carry | mark |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 servant | nmod:poss |
| 20 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carry | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 carry | aux |
| 22 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 much | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 give | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 give | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 give | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 give | aux |
| 27 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 give | compound:prt |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 30 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 give | iobj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 give | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | your Majesty | King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | your Majesty not said here | much | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient much=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | can | my servant | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give up | future | I | your daughter | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Source |
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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