The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 115

‘Don’t give them to her; she soils everything with cinders; give them to my daughter rather.’

Who acts: you, girl · What happens: not give, soil, give · To what, where: ornaments, everything

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, girl), 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	_	4 give	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 soils	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 soils	nsubj
10	soils	soil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 give	conj
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 soils	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 cinders	case
13	cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 everything	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
15	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 give	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 daughter	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obl
20	rather	rather	ADV	_	19 daughter	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not give	imperative · do-support	you not said here		ornaments = ornament	to girl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to she=Recipient
2	soil	present	girl	everything		with cinders	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Destination with cinder=Theme
3	give	infinitive	you not said here		ornaments = ornament	to my daughter	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to daughter=Recipient

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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