The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 87
_You_ never cared to give me a brush; but he has given me one, and he shall go in peace.’
Who acts: You, Désiré · What happens: not care, give, go · To what, where: brush, me, Désiré, peace
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Désiré), 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 cared | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 cared | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 cared | punct |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 cared | advmod |
| 5 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cared | xcomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 brush | det |
| 10 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 given | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cared | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 given | iobj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 given | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 go | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | aux |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cared | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 peace | case |
| 24 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | past | You | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | You not said here | a brush | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient brush=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | present · perfect · passive | Désiré | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | shall | Désiré | peace | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=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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