The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 32
Give me your consent, I beg, for no other woman pleases me as well, even though she has but one hand!’
Who acts: you, I, other woman, woman, your · What happens: give, beg, please, have, consent · To what, where: consent, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. 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, other woman, woman), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 consent | nmod:poss |
| 4 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beg | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 beg | nsubj |
| 7 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pleases | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 pleases | mark |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pleases | nsubj |
| 13 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pleases | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 13 pleases | advmod |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 has | advmod |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 has | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 hand | cc |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hand | nummod |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | conj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | your consent | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient consent=Theme | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | I | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | please | present | no other woman | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | have | present | woman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | consent | your | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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