The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 103

Give me my reward, and let me have your daughter to wife.’

Who acts: you, me, my · What happens: give, let, have, reward · To what, where: reward, me, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, my), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 reward	nmod:poss
4	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 let	cc
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughter	nmod:poss
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wife	mark
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	acl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	my reward	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient reward=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	me		tree rules
3	have	infinitive	me not said here	your daughter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	reward		my			nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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