The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 148

‘I’ll tell you what,’ cried the dragon, trembling with fear at the thought of such a thing; ‘let me carry the wood for you, and you shall have seven times seven sacks full of ducats.’

Who acts: I, me, you · What happens: tell, cry, tremble, let, carry, have · To what, where: you, dragon, thought, me, wood, thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, me, 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 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dragon	det
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trembling	punct
13	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 fear	case
15	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trembling	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 thought	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thought	det
18	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trembling	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 thing	case
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 thing	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thing	det
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thought	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
25	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	parataxis
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 let	obj
27	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wood	det
29	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carry	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 carry	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 have	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 have	cc
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 have	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 have	aux
36	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	conj
37	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 times	nummod
38	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 have	obl:unmarked
39	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 sacks	nummod
40	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 times	conj
41	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sacks	amod
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 ducats	case
43	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 full	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic
2	cry speech: express	past		the dragon					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic
3	tremble	gerund				the thought of such thing		with fear	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thought=Location
4	let	infinitive		me					tree rules
5	carry	infinitive	me not said here	the wood				for you	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
6	have	shall	you				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	think			such thing					nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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