The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 72
I give you a month to see if either of your daughters will come back with you and stay here, to let you go free.
Who acts: I, either, you · What happens: give, see, come back, stay, let, go · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, either, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 give | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 month | det |
| 5 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 give | advcl |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 9 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 come | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 daughters | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 either | nmod |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | ccomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stay | cc |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | conj |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 stay | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 let | mark |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stay | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 let | obj |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 26 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 go | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | you | month | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come back a condition, not said to happen | future | either | with you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stay | infinitive | either not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | let | to-infinitive | either not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | you not said here | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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