The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 187
‘To give you back your human form again.’
Who acts: your · What happens: give back, form · To what, where: human form, you
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 (your), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 give | mark |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | back | back | ADP | _ | 3 give | compound:prt |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 form | nmod:poss |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 form | amod |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 give | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | to-infinitive | your human form | you | again | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient form=Theme | |||
| 2 | form | your | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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