Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 44

"What gift," said his wife, "would you give me that I could make you laugh?"

Who acts: gift, you · What happens: gift, say, give, make, laugh · To what, where: wife, gift · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gift, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 gift	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 gift	nsubj
3	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gift	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 gift	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wife	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 give	nsubj
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 make	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 make	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 make	aux
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 give	advcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 laugh	nsubj
20	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 make	xcomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	gift in a quote					tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	gift	gift's wife		tree rules
3	give in a quote	would	you		gift	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	make in a quote	could	gift			tree rules
5	laugh in a quote	infinitive	you			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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