The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 77
Give two of the pieces to your wife, and bury two more in the garden.”
Who acts: you · What happens: give, bury · To what, where: two pieces, wife, two more, garden
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pieces | nummod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pieces | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pieces | det |
| 5 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bury | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bury | cc |
| 11 | bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 more | nummod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 bury | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 garden | det |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bury | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | the two pieces | your wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to wife=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bury | infinitive | you not said here | two more | the garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent more=Theme in garden=Destination |
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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