The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 48

I gave you always of the best; I kept you warm in my soft nest.

Who acts: I · What happens: give, keep · To what, where: best, you, soft nest

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 best	advmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 best	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 best	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 gave	iobj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 kept	obj
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kept	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 nest	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nest	nmod:poss
15	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nest	amod
16	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	I		the best				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient good=Theme
2	keep	past	I	you		my soft nest		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in nest=Location

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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