The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 39
If you like to give me twopence you can have the rest.’
Who acts: you · What happens: like, give, have · To what, where: me, rest
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 like | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 like | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | twopence | twopence | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rest | det |
| 12 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | can | you | the rest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient |
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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