The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 10

‘More than you would find it easy to pay, Madam,’ answered she; ‘but if you will manage for me to sleep one night in the Chamber of Echoes, I will give you the emeralds.’

Who acts: you, price, me, I · What happens: find, pay, answer, manage, sleep, give · To what, where: price, Madam, Chamber, emeralds, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, price, me, 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	_	6 find	punct
2	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	6 find	advmod
3	than	than	ADP	_	2 More	fixed
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 find	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 answered	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	obj
8	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 find	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pay	mark
10	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 easy	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Madam	punct
12	Madam	Madam	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 answered	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 manage	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 manage	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 manage	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 manage	aux
23	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 answered	ccomp
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 sleep	mark
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sleep	nsubj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sleep	mark
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 manage	advcl
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 night	nummod
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sleep	obl:unmarked
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 Chamber	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Chamber	det
32	Chamber	Chamber	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sleep	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Echoes	case
34	Echoes	Echo	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 Chamber	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 give	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 give	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 give	aux
38	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 manage	conj
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 give	iobj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 emeralds	det
41	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 give	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	you	price				Madam obl; easy property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	pay	to-infinitive	price not said here						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past			Madam				tree rules
4	manage a condition, not said to happen	future	you						vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sleep	to-infinitive	me			the Chamber of Echoes	night		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in chamber=Location
6	give	future	I	the emeralds	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient emerald=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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