The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 42
‘Ah! my little brownie, if you can do that, there is nothing I won’t give you, except my soul.’
Who acts: you, nothing, I · What happens: do, be, not give · To what, where: that, you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, nothing, 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 | _ | 6 brownie | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 brownie | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brownie | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brownie | amod |
| 6 | brownie | brownie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 brownie | conj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | advcl |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 is | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | nsubj |
| 18 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 give | advmod |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 soul | punct |
| 23 | except | except | ADP | _ | 25 soul | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 soul | nmod:poss |
| 25 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brownie | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 brownie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not give | future | I | you | except my soul | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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