The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 179

‘Then I will give the editor the best!’

Who acts: I · What happens: give · To what, where: editor

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	5 give	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 give	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 editor	det
7	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 best	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 give	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	the editor			then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent editor=Recipient good=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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