The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 18

He gave them a little whip, saying, ‘Whip and slash with this, and as much money as you want will jump up before you.

Who acts: King, you · What happens: give, say, want, jump up · To what, where: little whip, others, Whip · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 whip	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 whip	amod
6	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gave	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Whip	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Whip	punct
11	Whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saying	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 slash	cc
13	slash	slash	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Whip	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 this	case
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 Whip	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 money	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 money	cc
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 money	amod
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saying	obl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 want	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 want	nsubj
23	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 jump	advcl
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 jump	aux
25	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 saying	ccomp
26	up	up	ADV	_	25 jump	advmod
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 jump	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	King	a little whip	others = other			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient whip=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	King not said here	Whip and slash			with this; much money obl	tree rules
3	want	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	jump up	future				before you		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before you=Trajectory

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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