The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 49
‘Now, I shall give you three wishes, for you are a very nice little girl; but I will choose the wishes for you.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, be, choose · To what, where: three wishes, you, wishes
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 (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 give | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 wishes | nummod |
| 9 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 girl | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 girl | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 girl | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 girl | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 nice | advmod |
| 16 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | parataxis |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 choose | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 choose | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 choose | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 choose | aux |
| 23 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wishes | det |
| 25 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 choose | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 choose | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | shall | I | three wishes | you | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wish=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | present | you | for a nice little girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | choose | future | I | the wishes | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wish=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
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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