The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 85

‘I would gladly give up all the good fortune she promised me,’ he said, ‘if I could only save my child.’

Who acts: I, wife, miller · What happens: give up, promise, say, save · To what, where: good fortune, me, child · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife, miller), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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