The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 86
“No, I shall not give it to you unless you let me out of my cage.”
Who acts: bearded man, you · What happens: not give, let · To what, where: cage, you, bearded man
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bearded man, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 give | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 give | advmod |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | obl |
| 11 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 13 let | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 let | nsubj |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 cage | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cage | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cage | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 let | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give in a quote | shall | the bearded man = man | cage | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | the bearded man = man | my cage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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: «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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