The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 30

‘But what am I to give you, old Witch; for surely you are not going to do this for nothing?’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, not go, do · To what, where: old Witch, you, this

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. 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), 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	_	7 give	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 give	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 give	obj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Witch	punct
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Witch	amod
11	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 surely	case
14	surely	surely	ADV	_	18 going	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 going	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 going	advmod
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 give	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 going	xcomp
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 do	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 nothing	case
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 do	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	I	old Witch	you		tree rules
2	not go	present · progressive	you			surely property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	to-infinitive	you not said here	this		for nothing	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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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