The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 108

Perhaps he will give us something in return, and if he does we will divide it faithfully between us.’

Who acts: rest, we · What happens: give, divide · To what, where: something, us, return

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, we), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 give	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 return	case
8	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 divide	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 divide	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 does	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 does	nsubj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 divide	aux
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 divide	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 divide	aux
16	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 divide	obj
18	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	16 divide	advmod
19	between	between	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 divide	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	future	rest	something	us	return		perhaps property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient something=Theme
2	divide	present · do-support	we	return				between us; faithfully property	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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