The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 96

But I have worked hard to build my house and secure a morsel to eat, and I suppose you think that I am to give away everything to the first passer-by who chooses to ask for it.

Who acts: I, you, first passer · What happens: work, build, secure, eat, suppose, think · To what, where: house, morsel, everything, first passer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. 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, first passer), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 worked	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 worked	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	aux
4	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 worked	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 build	mark
7	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 worked	advcl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 house	nmod:poss
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 build	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 secure	cc
11	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 build	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 morsel	det
13	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 secure	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 eat	mark
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 secure	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 suppose	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 suppose	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 suppose	nsubj
19	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
21	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 suppose	ccomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 give	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 give	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
25	to	to	PART	_	26 give	mark
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 think	ccomp
27	away	away	ADP	_	26 give	compound:prt
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 give	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 passer	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 passer	det
31	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 passer	amod
32	passer	passer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obl
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 passer	punct
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 who	case
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 chooses	nsubj
36	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 passer	acl:relcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 ask	mark
38	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 chooses	xcomp
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ask	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	work	present · perfect	I			hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	build	to-infinitive	I not said here	my house			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
3	secure	infinitive	I not said here	a morsel			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition morsel=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	suppose	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	think speech: other	present	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	give away	present	I	everything	the first passer		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Theme to passer=Recipient
8	choose	present	the first passer				tree rules
9	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the first passer not said here			for passer	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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