The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 139

‘Give me your dough trough and your ladle.’

Who acts: you · What happens: give · To what, where: dough trough, me

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. 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	6 trough	nmod:poss
5	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trough	compound
6	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ladle	cc
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ladle	nmod:poss
9	ladle	ladle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trough	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
11	’	'	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 dough trough and your ladle	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient trough=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 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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