The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 31
Give it to me in exchange for a treasure I have which is still better.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, have, be · To what, where: much, me, exchange
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 exchange | case |
| 6 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 treasure | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 treasure | det |
| 9 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exchange | nmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 better | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 better | cop |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 better | advmod |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 have | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | much | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | present | I | exchange for a treasure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | still | good property | tree rules |
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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