The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 56

‘My pot has cracked in the fire, lend me yours to cook my supper in, and I will give you a handful of corn in return.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: crack, lend, cook, give · To what, where: pot, fire, yours, me, supper, handful

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 cracked	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 pot	nmod:poss
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cracked	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cracked	aux
5	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 lend	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cracked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cracked	punct
10	lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 lend	iobj
12	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 lend	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cook	mark
14	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 lend	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 supper	nmod:poss
16	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cook	obj
17	in	in	ADV	_	14 cook	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 give	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lend	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 handful	det
25	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 corn	case
27	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 handful	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 return	case
29	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 corn	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lend	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 lend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	crack	present · perfect · passive		My pot		the fire	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	lend	imperative	you not said here	yours	me		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient your=Theme
3	cook	to-infinitive	you not said here	my supper			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
4	give	future	I	a handful of corn in return	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient handful=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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