The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 66

‘I have served you all these years and you never gave me so much as a hard crust, but the dear children gave me their own loaf of bread.’

Who acts: I, you, dear children · What happens: serve, not give, give · To what, where: you, me, own loaf

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). 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, dear children), 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	_	4 served	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 served	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 served	aux
4	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 served	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 years	det:predet
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 years	det
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 served	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 gave	advmod
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 served	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADV	_	12 gave	advmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 crust	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 crust	det
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 crust	amod
19	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 gave	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 children	det
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 children	amod
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 gave	nsubj
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 served	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 gave	iobj
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 loaf	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 loaf	amod
29	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 bread	case
31	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 loaf	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 served	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 served	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	serve	present · perfect	I	you		year		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute
2	not give	past	you		me		as a hard crust	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	give	past	the dear children	children's own loaf of bread	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient loaf=Theme

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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