Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 3

The old man answered and said, "Not I." "What reward would you give me for sending plenty of fish to you?" "

Who acts: old man, reward · What happens: answer, say, give, send · To what, where: old man, plenty, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, reward), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 I.	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 I.	punct
9	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 I.	advmod
10	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 I.	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 give	obj
14	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 sending	mark
20	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 give	advcl
21	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sending	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 fish	case
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 plenty	nmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 sending	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the old man			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: ask	past	the old man not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	would	reward		the old man = man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme
4	send in a quote	gerund	reward not said here	plenty of fish	you	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme to you=Destination

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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