The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 100
If you like, I will give you a herb to break the spell.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: like, give, break · To what, where: herb, you, spell
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 like | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 herb | det |
| 10 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 break | mark |
| 12 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 herb | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spell | det |
| 14 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 break | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | give | future | I | a herb | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient herb=Theme | |||
| 3 | break | to-infinitive | I not said here | the spell | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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