The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 11

“Give me your child, and let me take care of it.

Who acts: you, old woman · What happens: give, let, take · To what, where: child, old woman, care

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old woman), 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Give	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here	your child	the old woman = woman		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient child=Theme
2	let in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the old woman = woman			tree rules
3	take in a quote	infinitive	the old woman = woman not said here	care		of care	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Initial_Location

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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