The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 1

‘Most certainly,’ answered the little man; ‘and for greater security I will give you one of my lions as a protector.

Who acts: Most, I · What happens: answer, give · To what, where: little man, one, you

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Most, 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	_	2 Most	punct
2	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 answered	nsubj
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 Most	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Most	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Most	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 ‘	punct
11	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 security	case
14	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 security	amod
15	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 give	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 lions	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 lions	nmod:poss
23	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 protector	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 protector	det
26	protector	protector	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Most		the little man and ‘				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	give	future	I	one of my lions	you			for greater security; as a protector	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient one=Theme for security=Asset

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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