The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 31
If you want help, then give us some bread.’
Who acts: you · What happens: want, give · To what, where: help, bread, us
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 want | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | advcl |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 give | advmod |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 bread | det |
| 10 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | imperative | you not said here | some bread | us | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient bread=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 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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