The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 54
‘Give me a bag of peas’ said Esben, ‘and I shall see what I can do for you.’
Who acts: Esben, I · What happens: give, say, see, do · To what, where: bag, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben, I), 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 | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bag | det |
| 5 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 peas | case |
| 7 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bag | nmod |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ‘ | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | INTJ | _ | 10 Esben | discourse |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | infinitive | a bag of peas | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bag=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Esben | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | shall | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | can | I | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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