The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 90
So I thought to give it into your hand, having a kindness for you because you feed your flock upon my mountain.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: think, give, have, feed · To what, where: earth, hand, kindness, flock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (I, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kindness | det |
| 13 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 having | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 having | obl |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 feed | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 feed | nsubj |
| 18 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | advcl |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 flock | nmod:poss |
| 20 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feed | obj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 mountain | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mountain | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | earth | your hand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | I not said here | a kindness | for you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kindness=Patient | |||
| 4 | feed | present | you | your flock | upon my mountain | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Recipient |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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