Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 29
"I'll give you whatever you ask," says the king; "isn't that fair?"
Who acts: king, you, that · What happens: give, ask, say, not be · To what, where: whatever, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, King O'toole and His Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you, that), 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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 says | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fair | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fair | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fair | cop |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 fair | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 fair | nsubj |
| 19 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 says | ccomp |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 fair | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | the king = king | whatever | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient whatever=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | present | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | that | fair property | tree rules |
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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