The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 33

‘A donkey!’ repeated Simon, ‘you don’t mean to say so; if a single other person tells me that, I’ll make him a present of the wretched animal.’

Who acts: you, single other person, I · What happens: repeat, not mean, say, tell, make · To what, where: donkey, me, present · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, single other person, 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	_	3 donkey	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 repeated	nsubj:pass
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 donkey	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 donkey	punct
6	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 repeated	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mean	punct
9	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	13 mean	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 mean	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 mean	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 mean	advmod
13	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 repeated	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 say	mark
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 mean	xcomp
16	so	so	ADV	_	15 say	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 tells	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 person	det
20	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 person	amod
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 person	amod
22	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tells	nsubj
23	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 make	advcl
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tells	iobj
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 me	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 me	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 make	nsubj
28	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 make	aux
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 repeated	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 make	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 present	det
32	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 animal	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 animal	det
35	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 animal	amod
36	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 present	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	repeat	participle · passive		a donkey		tree rules
2	not mean	present · do-support	you			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	a single other person		me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	make	future	I	a present of the wretched animal	donkey	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary present=Product

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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