The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 54
Just whisper it in my ear, and I will give you a kiss.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: whisper, give · To what, where: secret, ear, kiss, you
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. 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), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 whisper | advmod |
| 2 | whisper | whisper | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 whisper | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ear | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whisper | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 whisper | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kiss | det |
| 14 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whisper | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 whisper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | secret | my ear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | give | future | I | a kiss | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kiss=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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