The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 71

‘I thank you, mighty King, for your gracious offer,’ answered Martin,’ ‘but I do not covet either gold, silver, or precious stones; yet if you will grant me a favour, give me, I beg, the ring from off the little finger of your royal hand.

Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: thank, answer, not covet, grant, give, beg · To what, where: you, Martin, gold, favour, me, ring

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, your), 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	_	3 thank	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thank	nsubj
3	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 answered	conj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 King	punct
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 King	amod
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thank	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 offer	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 offer	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 offer	nmod:poss
11	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 offer	amod
12	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thank	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 covet	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 covet	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 covet	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 covet	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 covet	advmod
24	covet	covet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 answered	parataxis
25	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	26 gold	det
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 covet	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 silver	punct
28	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gold	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stones	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 stones	cc
31	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stones	amod
32	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gold	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 grant	punct
34	yet	yet	ADV	_	38 grant	advmod
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 grant	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 grant	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 grant	aux
38	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 covet	conj
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 grant	obj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 favour	det
41	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grant	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 give	punct
43	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 grant	parataxis
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 give	iobj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 beg	punct
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 beg	nsubj
47	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 give	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 ring	punct
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 ring	det
50	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 beg	obj
51	from	from	ADP	_	55 finger	case
52	off	off	ADP	_	55 finger	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 finger	det
54	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 finger	amod
55	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 ring	nmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 hand	case
57	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 hand	nmod:poss
58	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 hand	amod
59	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 finger	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present	I		you			for your gracious offer; mighty King vocative	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for offer=Attribute
2	answer speech: assert	past			Martin				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent martin=Eventuality
3	not covet	present · do-support	I	either gold and silver or precious stones					vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme
4	grant a condition, not said to happen	future	you	a favour	me		yet		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal favour=Theme
5	give	infinitive			me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	beg speech: request	present	I	the ring		the little finger of your royal hand			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient
7	offer		your						nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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