The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 118
Can you indeed give me the Prince’s heart?”
Who acts: you · What happens: give · To what, where: heart, me
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Prince | case |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | can | you | the Prince's heart | me | indeed property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient heart=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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