The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 62
‘You have got your money, give me my tinder-box.’
Who acts: You · What happens: get, give · To what, where: money, tinder box, me
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. 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 | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 give | csubj |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 money | nmod:poss |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 box | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 box | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 tinder | punct |
| 13 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | You | your money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | imperative | you not said here | my tinder box | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient box=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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