The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 96

“Well, then, will you lend me your two mules?

Who acts: you · What happens: lend · To what, where: two mules, woman

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 lend	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 lend	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lend	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lend	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 lend	nsubj
8	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 lend	iobj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mules	nmod:poss
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 mules	nummod
12	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lend	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 lend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend in a quote	future	you	your two mules	the woman = woman		then		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient mule=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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