The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 42
“Then give me just one proof of your goodness.
Who acts: you · What happens: give, proof · To what, where: one proof, crafty maiden, goodness
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. 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 | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 give | advmod |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 proof | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 proof | nummod |
| 7 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 goodness | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 goodness | nmod:poss |
| 10 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proof | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | one proof of your goodness | the crafty maiden = maiden | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient proof=Theme | ||
| 2 | proof in a quote | your goodness | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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