The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 126
“But, my good fellow, you really should give some one else a chance.
Who acts: you · What happens: give · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. 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 | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fellow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fellow | amod |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 give | advmod |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 13 one | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 chance | det |
| 16 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | should | you | some one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient chance=Theme |
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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