The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 37
‘Give us some crumbs, then you need not grieve.
Who acts: you · What happens: give, not grieve · To what, where: crumbs, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 crumbs | det |
| 5 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grieve | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 grieve | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 grieve | nsubj |
| 9 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 grieve | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 grieve | advmod |
| 11 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Give | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | some crumbs | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient crumb=Theme | |||
| 2 | not grieve | present | you | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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