The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 62

‘Then I’ll tell you,’ answered the King; ‘a thousand gold crowns or a piece of land.

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, answer · To what, where: thousand gold crowns, you, King · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tell	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 crowns	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 crowns	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thousand	det
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 crowns	nummod
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crowns	compound
17	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 piece	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 piece	det
20	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crowns	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 land	case
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 piece	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	thousand gold crowns or a piece of land	you		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	past			the King				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality

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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