English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 39

And he said: “I will gladly do that,” and so he gave her a piece of the johnny-cake; and for that she gave him a magical wand, that she might yet be of service to him, if he took care to use it rightly.

Who acts: water, woman · What happens: say, do, give, be, take, care · To what, where: that, piece, woman, magical wand, water, cake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, woman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
8	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	9 do	advmod
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 do	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 gave	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 piece	det
19	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 cake	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cake	det
22	johnny	johnny	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cake	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 johnny	punct
24	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 piece	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 gave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gave	cc
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 that	case
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 gave	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gave	nsubj
30	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gave	iobj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 wand	det
33	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wand	amod
34	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gave	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 service	punct
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 service	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 service	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 service	aux
39	yet	yet	ADV	_	42 service	advmod
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 service	cop
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 service	case
42	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gave	obl
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 service	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 took	punct
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 took	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 took	nsubj
48	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gave	conj
49	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 took	ccomp
50	to	to	PART	_	51 use	mark
51	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 care	xcomp
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 use	obj
53	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	51 use	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	water					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	future	water	that			gladly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
3	give	past	water	a piece of the johnny cake	woman			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient piece=Theme
4	give	past	woman	a magical wand	water		for that	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wand=Theme for that=Asset
5	is	might	woman		water	yet	of service	tree rules
6	take a condition, not said to happen	past	water					vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
7	care	infinitive	water not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	use	to-infinitive	water not said here	cake			rightly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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