The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 61
Give my maidens back their youth and health this very minute, or I will never love you!”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give back, not love · To what, where: maidens, you
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 maidens | nmod:poss |
| 3 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Give | advmod |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 youth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 health | cc |
| 8 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 youth | conj |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 minute | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 minute | advmod |
| 11 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 love | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 love | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 love | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 love | advmod |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 love | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | imperative | you not said here | my maidens | minute | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Recipient youth=Theme | |||
| 2 | not love | future | I | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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