The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 29
Give me five minutes more and they will be gone also!”
Who acts: you · What happens: give, go · To what, where: me, legs
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. 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 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 more | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Give | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gone | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 gone | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gone | aux:pass |
| 10 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Give | conj |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 gone | advmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | 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 | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | future · passive | legs = leg | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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