More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 122
Will you give me a lift, for all my bones are an-aching."
Who acts: you, bones · What happens: give, be · To what, where: lift, me
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bones), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lift | det |
| 6 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 aching | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 aching | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 bones | det:predet |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bones | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 aching | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 aching | cop |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 aching | det |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 aching | punct |
| 15 | aching | aching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | you | a lift | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lift=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | my bones | for a aching | 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: «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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