The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 128

You must give him time to get accustomed to new ways.’

Who acts: You · What happens: give, accustom · To what, where: dog

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 accustomed	mark
7	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 accustomed	aux:pass
8	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 time	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 ways	case
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ways	amod
11	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 accustomed	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	must	You		dog		time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	accustom	to-infinitive · passive	You not said here					to new ways	tree rules

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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