The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 45
“I’ll give you some on your back, if you like,” answered Tree Comber rudely.
Who acts: Tree Comber, you · What happens: give, like, answer · To what, where: some, you, back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree Comber, 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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 some | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 like | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Comber | compound |
| 18 | Comber | Comber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 19 | rudely | rudely | ADV | _ | 16 answered | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | Tree Comber = comber | some | you | your back | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient some=Theme on back=Asset | ||
| 2 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Tree Comber | rudely property | tree rules |
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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