The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 98
‘Now give me the ointment that will restore him to life.’
Who acts: you, ointment · What happens: give, restore · To what, where: ointment, me, life
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ointment), 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 | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 give | advmod |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ointment | det |
| 6 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 restore | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 restore | aux |
| 9 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ointment | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 restore | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 restore | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | the ointment | me | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ointment=Theme | ||
| 2 | restore | future | the ointment | ointment | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Recipient |
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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