The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 55
“Then give _me_ the eye, for perhaps I can see farther than you.”
Who acts: you, things · What happens: give, see · To what, where: eye, things
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, things), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 give | advmod |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 me | punct |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 me | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eye | det |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 11 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 14 see | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 15 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 see | xcomp |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 farther | 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 in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the eye | things = thing | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient eye=Theme | ||
| 2 | see in a quote | can | things = thing | far, perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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