The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 36

‘Oh! do give it to me,’ said the Princess, ‘and I will keep it and take care of it.’

Who acts: Princess, I · What happens: give, say, keep, take · To what, where: dove, me, care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 give	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ‘	punct
15	‘	‘	INTJ	_	13 Princess	discourse
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 keep	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 keep	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 keep	aux
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 keep	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 take	cc
22	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 keep	conj
23	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 take	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 keep	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	present · do-support		dove	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	future	I	dove			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	take	infinitive	I not said here	care		of dove	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Initial_Location

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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