The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 21
“But if you WANT to cry, I will give you something to cry for.”
Who acts: you, elves · What happens: want, cry, give · To what, where: something, you
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, elves), 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 | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 WANT | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 WANT | nsubj |
| 5 | WANT | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cry | mark |
| 7 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 WANT | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 WANT | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 give | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cry | mark |
| 15 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 something | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 cry | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | elves = elf | something | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express in a quote | to-infinitive | elves = elf not said here | something not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 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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