The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 85
If you will give me some workmen and materials I will build you a great white pillar that shall reach far above the clouds.”
Who acts: you, I, great white pillar · What happens: give, build, reach · To what, where: workmen, me, great white pillar, you
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, great white pillar), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 build | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 workmen | det |
| 7 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 materials | cc |
| 9 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 workmen | conj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 build | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 build | aux |
| 12 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 build | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pillar | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pillar | amod |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pillar | amod |
| 17 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 build | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 reach | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 reach | aux |
| 20 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pillar | acl:relcl |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 reach | advmod |
| 22 | above | above | ADP | _ | 24 clouds | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 clouds | det |
| 24 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 far | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 build | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | future | you | some workmen and materials | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient workman=Theme | |||
| 2 | build | future | I | a great white pillar | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary pillar=Product | |||
| 3 | reach | shall | a great white pillar | far property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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