English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 7
Which would you like best for me to make you, a little cake and bless you, or a big cake and curse you?”
Who acts: you · What happens: like, make, bless · To what, where: best, you
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 like | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 like | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 best | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cake | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cake | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cake | amod |
| 14 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bless | cc |
| 16 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 make | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 bless | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 you | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 you | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cake | det |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cake | amod |
| 22 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 you | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 curse | cc |
| 24 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cake | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 like | conj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | would | you | best | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | ||||
| 3 | bless | infinitive | you not said here | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: «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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