The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 56

“Then give me one of your longest bones, and I will fasten it to my leg.

Who acts: you, whale · What happens: give, fasten · To what, where: one, thing

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, whale), 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	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 give	iobj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 bones	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bones	nmod:poss
8	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 bones	amod
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fasten	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fasten	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 fasten	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fasten	aux
14	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fasten	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 leg	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 leg	nmod:poss
18	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fasten	obl
19	.	.	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 of your longest bones		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme
2	fasten in a quote	future	whale	thing				to my leg	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to leg=Co-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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