The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 33
Greetings to Otto and tell him that he may expect a gift from me, too.
Who acts: Greetings, Otto · What happens: tell, expect · To what, where: Otto, gift · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greetings, Otto), 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 | Greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 Otto | case |
| 3 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Greetings | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 expect | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 expect | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 expect | aux |
| 10 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tell | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gift | det |
| 12 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 expect | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 expect | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 too | punct |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 tell | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Greetings to Otto | Otto | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | expect | may | Otto | a gift | from me | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=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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