The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 116

“Give me quickly my boots of seven leagues, that I may go and catch them.”

Who acts: you, wife · What happens: give, go, catch · To what, where: boots

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wife), 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 Give	advmod
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boots	nmod:poss
6	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Give	iobj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 leagues	case
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 leagues	nummod
9	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boots	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 go	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Give	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 catch	cc
16	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 go	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 catch	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my boots of seven leagues	quickly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient boot=Theme
2	go in a quote	may	wife			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch in a quote	infinitive	wife not said here	boots = boot		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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