The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 65
Won’t you give that to me: you are sure to get a good dinner at the palace.’
Who acts: you · What happens: not give, be, get · To what, where: that, me, good dinner, palace
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. 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 | Wo | wo | INTJ | _ | 4 give | discourse |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 give | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 give | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 sure | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 sure | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sure | cop |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 give | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sure | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dinner | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dinner | amod |
| 16 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | present | you | that | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | a good dinner | the palace | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme at palace=Asset |
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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