The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 79
But what shall I give you as a reward to begin with?’
Who acts: I · What happens: give, begin · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 give | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 give | obj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 reward | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 reward | det |
| 9 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 begin | mark |
| 11 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 reward | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 begin | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | shall | I | you | as a reward | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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