The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 34
‘Most certainly I will, if that’s all you want,’ replied the sweep, and gave the girl his hand.
Who acts: you, Most · What happens: want, reply, give · To what, where: sweep, hand, girl
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Most), 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 | _ | 2 Most | punct |
| 2 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 will | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 will | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Most | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 all | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 all | mark |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 all | nsubj |
| 9 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 all | cop |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 want | nsubj |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 all | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 want | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 all | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sweep | det |
| 17 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 replied | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Most | the sweep | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sweep=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Most not said here | sweep's hand | the girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient hand=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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