The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 61
Give me my four middle brothers as companions, and keep the two others as hostages.”
Who acts: you · What happens: give, keep · To what, where: four middle brothers, two others
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 brothers | nummod |
| 5 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brothers | amod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | iobj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 companions | case |
| 8 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 keep | cc |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 others | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 others | nummod |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 keep | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 hostages | case |
| 16 | hostages | hostage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 keep | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | my four middle brothers | as companions | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient brother=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | the two others | as hostages | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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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