The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 98

‘Give him three years’! give him ten!’ shouted Old Eric, ‘only don’t let him come near me.’

Who acts: Hans · What happens: give, shout, not let, come · To what, where: Hans, ten, Old Eric · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans), 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	VerbForm=Inf	13 shouted	ccomp
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Give	obj
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Give	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 give	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
13	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Eric	amod
15	Eric	Eric	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 shouted	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
18	only	only	ADV	_	21 let	advmod
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 let	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 let	advmod
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 shouted	ccomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	near	near	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 come	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	infinitive			Hans	year		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	give	infinitive		ten	Hans			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ten=Theme
3	shout speech: express	past		Old Eric				tree rules
4	not let	infinitive · do-support		Hans				tree rules
5	come	infinitive	Hans not said here				near me	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near i=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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