The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 88
My arrow can be of no use to you, so give it to me.”
Who acts: arrow · What happens: be, give · To what, where: you, use, me
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 (arrow), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 2 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 use | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 use | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 use | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 use | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 use | det |
| 7 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 use | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 give | advmod |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 use | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 use | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | My arrow | you | of no use | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | infinitive | use | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=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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