The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 22
“You cannot give them to anyone who needs them more.”
Who acts: You · What happens: not give, need · To what, where: pieces
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 anyone | case |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 give | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 needs | nsubj |
| 10 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 needs | obj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 needs | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give in a quote | can | You | pieces = piece | to anyone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to anyone=Recipient | |||
| 2 | need in a quote | present | pieces = piece | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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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