The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 153
Give him his money, and let us be rid of him.’
Who acts: you, us · What happens: give, let, be · To what, where: money, man, us
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 money | nmod:poss |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rid | cop |
| 10 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 let | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rid | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | 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 | man's money | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | us not said here | of man; rid property | tree rules |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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