The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 14
'Could you give me some milk and fruit?' asked he. '
Who acts: you, Becasigue · What happens: give, ask · To what, where: milk, me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Becasigue), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 milk | det |
| 7 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fruit | cc |
| 9 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 milk | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | advcl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | could | you | some milk and fruit | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient milk=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Becasigue | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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