The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 84
I shall lend you a boat, however, and if you meet the whale and think your lives are in danger, then you can name me by name.’
Who acts: I, you, lives · What happens: lend, meet, think, be, name · To what, where: boat, you, whale, danger, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, lives), 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 | 3 lend | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 lend | aux |
| 3 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 lend | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lend | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 however | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 lend | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 think | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 meet | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 meet | nsubj |
| 13 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 think | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 whale | det |
| 15 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meet | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 think | cc |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lend | conj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lives | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 danger | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 danger | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 danger | case |
| 22 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 think | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 name | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 name | advmod |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 name | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 name | aux |
| 27 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 think | conj |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 name | obj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 name | case |
| 30 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 name | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lend | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | shall | I | a boat | you | however property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient boat=Theme | ||
| 2 | meet a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the whale | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | infinitive | I not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | your lives | danger | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | name | can | you | me | then | by name | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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