The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 41

‘Oh, nothing,’ answered he; ‘I am only heating a pair of tongs in case you may not feel inclined to give as much milk as I want.’

Who acts: nothing, I, you · What happens: answer, heat, not feel, give, want · To what, where: maiden, pair, much milk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, 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	_	4 nothing	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 nothing	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 answered	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 heating	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 heating	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 heating	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 heating	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 heating	advmod
14	heating	heat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 answered	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pair	det
16	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heating	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 tongs	case
18	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pair	nmod
19	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 feel	mark
20	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 in	fixed
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 feel	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 feel	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 feel	advmod
24	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 heating	advcl
25	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 feel	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 give	mark
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 inclined	xcomp
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 milk	amod
30	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 want	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 want	nsubj
33	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 give	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 heating	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 heating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	nothing		maiden		tree rules
2	heat	present · progressive	I	a pair of tongs			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
3	not feel	may	you			inclined property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	give	to-infinitive	you not said here	much milk			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
5	want	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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