The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 31
Do not give a scrap to any of the children, but eat every morsel up.’
Who acts: you · What happens: not give, eat up · To what, where: scrap, any, morsel
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 give | advmod |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 scrap | det |
| 5 | scrap | scrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 any | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 give | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 children | det |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 any | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 eat | cc |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | advcl |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 morsel | det |
| 15 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eat | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 eat | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | imperative · do-support | you not said here | a scrap | any | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent scrap=Theme to any=Recipient | |||
| 2 | eat up | present | you not said here | every morsel | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient |
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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