The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 50

‘Perhaps,’ said he, ‘this will give me an appetite, which I have not had for many a long day, and if so your wife shall have a hundred pieces of silver.’

Who acts: Bird, I, wife · What happens: say, give, not have, have · To what, where: appetite, me, hundred pieces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bird, I, wife), 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 said	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Perhaps	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 he	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 give	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 appetite	det
14	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 had	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 had	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 had	advmod
20	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 appetite	acl:relcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	25 day	case
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 day	nsubj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 day	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 day	amod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 have	cc
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 so	mark
29	so	so	ADV	_	33 have	advcl
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 have	aux
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 hundred	det
35	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 pieces	nummod
36	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 have	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 silver	case
38	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pieces	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past					perhaps property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	future	Bird	a appetite	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient appetite=Theme
3	not have	present · perfect	I	a appetite		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	have	shall	your wife	hundred pieces of silver				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient

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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