The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 48
“He gave them to me to look after, but I knew I could not do it, so I drove them straight to you.
Who acts: son · What happens: give, look after, know, not do, drive · To what, where: man, answer, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 look | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 knew | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 do | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drove | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 drove | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 drove | nsubj |
| 22 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drove | obj |
| 24 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 26 you | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 drove | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | son | man | to Herdsman's son = son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | look after in a quote | to-infinitive | son not said here | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | past | Herdsman's son = son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not do in a quote | could | Herdsman's son = son | answer | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | drive in a quote | past | Herdsman's son = son | man | you | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to you=Trajectory |
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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