English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 45

“What will you give?” said the man; “as you are a friend, I don't much mind letting you have them for those bagpipes.”

Who acts: you, man · What happens: give, say, be, mind, let, have · To what, where: you, Mr. · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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 give	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 give	obj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 mind	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 mind	punct
13	as	as	ADP	_	17 friend	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 friend	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 friend	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 friend	det
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mind	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 friend	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 mind	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 mind	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 much	advmod
22	much	much	ADV	_	23 mind	advmod
23	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
24	letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 mind	xcomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 letting	obj
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 letting	xcomp
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 bagpipes	case
29	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 bagpipes	det
30	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 have	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 mind	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 mind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	future	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	the man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	you		as a friend	tree rules
4	mind in a quote	present · do-support	the man = man			vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	let in a quote	gerund	the man = man not said here	you		tree rules
6	have in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	Mr.	for that bagpipes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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