The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 23
Wouldst not thou be glad, my dear, to have the same gift given thee?
Who acts: thou, same gift · What happens: not be, be, have, give · To what, where: same gift, thee
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, same gift), 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 | Wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 glad | advmod |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | cop |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dear | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 glad | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gift | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gift | amod |
| 14 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 gift | acl |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 given | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | would | thou | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | thou not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | thou not said here | the same gift | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | participle | the same gift not said here | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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