The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 93
Why do you give to the ogre Your child, so fair, so fair?
Who acts: you · What happens: give · To what, where: ogre
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 give | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ogre | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ogre | det |
| 7 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 child | nmod:poss |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ogre | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fair | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 fair | advmod |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 give | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fair | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 fair | advmod |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fair | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · do-support | you | the ogre | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=Theme |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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