The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 103
I give you your life, but I advise you to leave this country as fast as you can.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, advise, leave · To what, where: life, you, country
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 give | iobj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 advise | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 advise | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 advise | nsubj |
| 9 | advise | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 advise | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 leave | mark |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 advise | xcomp |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 fast | advmod |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 leave | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 can | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 can | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fast | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | your life | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient life=Theme | |||
| 2 | advise speech: other | present | I | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | this country | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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