The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 27
‘Give me children, my lord, give me children.’
Who acts: you · What happens: give · To what, where: lord, children
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), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Give | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lord | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lord | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | my lord | children | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient child=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | children | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient child=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 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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