The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 42

‘Do not try to count them, it would take too long; choose some of the bars from the heap, as I should like to make you a present of them.’

Who acts: you, it, I · What happens: not try, count, take, choose, like, make · To what, where: Hans, some, heap, present, you

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it, 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	_	4 try	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 try	advmod
4	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 count	mark
6	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 count	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 take	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	conj
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 take	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 choose	punct
15	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 try	parataxis
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 choose	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 bars	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bars	det
19	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 some	nmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 heap	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 heap	det
22	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 choose	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 like	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 like	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 like	aux
27	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 choose	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 like	xcomp
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 make	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 present	det
32	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 present	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not try	imperative · do-support	you not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	count not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	Hans = han				vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	take	would	it				long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	choose	infinitive		some		the heap		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent some=Theme from heap=Source
5	like	should	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a present of Hans	you			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary present=Product

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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