The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 62
‘Will you give me your gun, and your dog, and your falcon?’
Who acts: you · What happens: give · To what, where: gun, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. 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 give | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gun | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dog | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dog | cc |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dog | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 falcon | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 falcon | cc |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 falcon | nmod:poss |
| 15 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | parataxis |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | you | your gun | me | your dog obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient gun=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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