The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 90
Do you take me for a washerman’s donkey?’
Who acts: you · What happens: take · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 donkey | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 washerman | det |
| 7 | washerman | washerman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 donkey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 washerman | case |
| 9 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · do-support | you | me | for a washerman's donkey | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for donkey=Beneficiary |
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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