The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 77

I should give myself up for lost!’

Who acts: I · What happens: give up, lose · To what, where: myself

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 give	iobj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 give	compound:prt
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 lost	mark
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 give	advcl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	should	I		myself				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Source
2	lose	participle	I not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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