The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 45
If you will be good to me I will give you a bit of my dinner.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, give · To what, where: me, bit, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 good | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 good | cop |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 give | csubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 good | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bit | det |
| 13 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dinner | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bit | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | good property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | future | I | a bit of my dinner | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bit=Theme |
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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