The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 8

I’ll tell you what; if you’ll give them to me, I’ll give you my three dogs.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: tell, give · To what, where: you, sheep, three dogs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 tell	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 give	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
9	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	iobj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 give	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
16	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 dogs	nmod:poss
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 dogs	nummod
21	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 give	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic
2	give a condition, not said to happen	future	you		sheep	to me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Recipient
3	give	future	I	my three dogs	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dog=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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