The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 79
Try to make friends with her, and give her this little gold ring.
Who acts: you, this · What happens: try, make, give, ring · To what, where: friends
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this), 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 | Try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 make | mark |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Try | xcomp |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 give | cc |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Try | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ring | nmod:poss |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 ring | nsubj |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ring | amod |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ring | compound |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | imperative | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | friends | with friend | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product | |||
| 3 | give | infinitive | you not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | ring | this | 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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