More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 72
Give him _Crooked and Straight_!"
Who acts: you · What happens: give · To what, where: Gobborn
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Crooked | punct |
| 4 | Crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Straight | cc |
| 6 | Straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Crooked | conj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Crooked | punct |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | Gobborn | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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