The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 214
‘Give my love to the dear swallow when you see him!’
Who acts: you, my · What happens: give, see, love · To what, where: love, dear swallow, mole
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 love | nmod:poss |
| 4 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 swallow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 swallow | det |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 swallow | amod |
| 8 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 see | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | 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 | my love | the dear swallow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Theme to swallow=Recipient | |||
| 2 | see | present | you | mole | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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