The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 202

‘Then give me back the purse,’ said John.

Who acts: John · What happens: give back, say · To what, where: purse, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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	_	3 give	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 give	advmod
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	back	back	ADP	_	3 give	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 purse	det
7	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	infinitive		the purse	me		then		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient purse=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	John						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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