The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 5
I had nearly given you up!
Who acts: I · What happens: give up · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 given | advmod |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 given | iobj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 given | compound:prt |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past · perfect | I | you | nearly property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Source |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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