The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 59

Therefore I will give you the power to change yourself into any creature that may help you best.

Who acts: I, creature · What happens: give, change, help · To what, where: power, you, yourself, creature

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, creature), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 power	det
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 change	mark
9	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	advcl
10	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 change	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 creature	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 creature	det
13	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 change	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 help	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 help	aux
16	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 creature	acl:relcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 help	obj
18	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 help	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	the power	you	therefore property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient power=Theme
2	change	to-infinitive	I not said here	yourself		into any creature result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient into creature=Result
3	help	may	any creature		you	well property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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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