The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 89
I will give you a ship to take you back to your own country upon one condition.”
Who acts: I · What happens: give, take back · To what, where: ship, you, own country
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 take | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 country | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 country | amod |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 condition | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 condition | nummod |
| 17 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | a ship | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ship=Theme | |||
| 2 | take back | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | your own country | upon one condition | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to country=Destination |
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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