The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 3
‘Well, give me the apple, and bid the woman get down,’ answered Rogear.
What happens: give, bid, get down, answer · To what, where: apple, me, woman, Rogear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 give | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 apple | det |
| 7 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bid | cc |
| 10 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bid | obj |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bid | xcomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 17 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Rogear | Rogear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 answered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | infinitive | the apple | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient apple=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bid | past | the woman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get down | infinitive | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | Rogear | 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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