The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 70
“Here is yours, will you give me back my own?”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, give back · To what, where: yours, own, voice
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 | _ | 4 yours | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 yours | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 yours | cop |
| 4 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 yours | parataxis |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | back | back | ADP | _ | 8 give | compound:prt |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 own | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 give | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 yours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | yours | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give back in a quote | future | you | my own | voice | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient own=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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