The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 54
Give the table to me and you shall have something still better.'
Who acts: you · What happens: give, have · To what, where: table, me, something
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), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 table | det |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | conj |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 better | advmod |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 something | amod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | 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 | the table | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent table=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | shall | you | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
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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