The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 86
Give me a few days to consider before we come to an understanding.’
Who acts: you, we · What happens: give, consider, come · To what, where: me, understanding
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 days | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 consider | mark |
| 7 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | advcl |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 consider | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 understanding | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 understanding | det |
| 13 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | me | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | consider | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | present | we | a understanding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to understanding=Initial_Location |
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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