The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 43

‘Well,’ they replied, ‘we will let you go, and will even give you the Golden Bird, if you are able to bring us the Porcelain Maiden.’

Who acts: miles, we, you · What happens: reply, let, go, give, be, bring · To what, where: you, Golden Bird, Porcelain Maiden, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, we, 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	_	6 replied	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 replied	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
4	’	'	CCONJ	_	6 replied	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 replied	nsubj
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 let	aux
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 replied	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
17	even	even	ADV	_	18 give	advmod
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Bird	det
21	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Bird	amod
22	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 give	iobj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 able	punct
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 able	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 able	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 able	cop
27	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 give	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 bring	mark
29	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	xcomp
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 bring	obj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Maiden	det
32	Porcelain	Porcelain	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Maiden	compound
33	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 bring	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	miles = mile				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	future	we	you			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	future	we not said here		the Golden Bird		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bird=Theme
5	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			able property	tree rules
6	bring	to-infinitive	you not said here	the Porcelain Maiden	us		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination maiden=Theme

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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