The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 5

The father was enchanted at the request, and gave him plenty of money for his expenses, saying, ‘If you behave as well as your brother, I will do honour to you as I did to him.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: enchant, give, say, behave, do, honour · To what, where: father, request, plenty, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enchanted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enchanted	aux:pass
4	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 request	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 request	det
7	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enchanted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enchanted	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 money	case
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plenty	nmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 expenses	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 expenses	nmod:poss
17	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gave	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 gave	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 behave	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 behave	punct
22	If	if	SCONJ	_	24 behave	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 behave	nsubj
24	behave	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 saying	parataxis
25	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	29 brother	cc
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 as	fixed
27	as	as	ADP	_	25 as	fixed
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 brother	nmod:poss
29	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 behave	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 enchanted	parataxis
34	honour	honour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 do	parataxis
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 honour	obl
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 did	mark
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 did	nsubj
39	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 honour	advcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 did	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 enchanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	enchant	past · passive		the father		the request		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	give	past		plenty of money	father		for father's expenses	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient plenty=Theme for expense=Asset
3	say speech: assert	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	behave a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
5	do	future	I					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	honour	infinitive			you			tree rules
7	do	past	I		father			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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