The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 35
‘Give me your left front paw, my little Fox, if you really wish to learn how it’s done.’
Who acts: you · What happens: give, wish, learn, do · To what, where: left front paw, me, side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 paw | nmod:poss |
| 5 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paw | amod |
| 6 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paw | amod |
| 7 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fox | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Fox | nmod:poss |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Fox | amod |
| 11 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 wish | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 wish | advmod |
| 16 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 learn | mark |
| 18 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wish | xcomp |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 done | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 done | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux:pass |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 learn | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | your left front paw | me | my little Fox obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient paw=Theme | ||
| 2 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | learn not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | present · passive | side | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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