The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 81
Go, scoundrel, I give you twenty-four hours respite.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: go, give · To what, where: scoundrel, hours respite, you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 scoundrel | punct |
| 3 | scoundrel | scoundrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 four | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 twenty | punct |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hours | nummod |
| 11 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 respite | compound |
| 12 | respite | respite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | scoundrel | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | present | I | hours respite | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient respite=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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