The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 88
I am grateful for your goodwill, but take back your gift!’
Who acts: I, your · What happens: be, take back, gift · To what, where: gift
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 grateful | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grateful | cop |
| 3 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 goodwill | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 goodwill | nmod:poss |
| 6 | goodwill | goodwill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grateful | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 take | cc |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 grateful | parataxis |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 take | advmod |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 gift | nmod:poss |
| 12 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 grateful | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 grateful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | for your goodwill; grateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take back | infinitive | your gift | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gift | your | nom gift «possession 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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