The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 121

‘I will give you a whole bushelful of money if you will let me go!’

Who acts: I, you, me · What happens: give, let, go · To what, where: whole bushelful, you, me

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. 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, me), 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 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bushelful	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bushelful	amod
8	bushelful	bushelful	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 money	case
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bushelful	nmod
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 let	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 let	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 let	aux
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	advcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	future	I	a whole bushelful of money	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bushelful=Theme
2	let a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	me not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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