The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 30
The Dwarfs said at once: ‘Give us some of your food!’
Who acts: Dwarfs · What happens: say, give · To what, where: some, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (Dwarfs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dwarfs | det |
| 2 | Dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Give | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Give | punct |
| 8 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Give | iobj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 Give | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 food | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 food | nmod:poss |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 some | nmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Give | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Dwarfs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | some | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient some=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 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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