The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 21
If you give me leave to go home for a few days I’d be glad.’
Who acts: you, I, few days · What happens: give, leave, go, have, be · To what, where: me, few days
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. 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, few days), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 give | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 leave | xcomp |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 days | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 days | amod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ’d | nsubj |
| 14 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 days | acl:relcl |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 glad | cop |
| 16 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ’d | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | day | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | past | I | a few days not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | a few days not said here | glad property | tree rules |
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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