The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 56
Come in and bear a hand, an I’ll give you diet and lodging, and a few pence when you earn them.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come in, bear, give, earn · To what, where: hand, diet, you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bear | cc |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hand | det |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bear | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 give | det |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | diet | diet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lodging | cc |
| 15 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 diet | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pence | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pence | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pence | det |
| 19 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pence | amod |
| 20 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 diet | conj |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 earn | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 earn | nsubj |
| 23 | earn | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 earn | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bear | infinitive | you not said here | a hand | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | future | I | diet and lodging and a few pence | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient diet=Theme | |||
| 4 | earn | present | you | diet | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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