The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 26
Give it to me, that I may see if I can do so.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, see, do · To what, where: misfortune, me
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. 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), 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 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | conj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 see | ccomp |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 do | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | 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 | misfortune | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | see | may | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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