The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 24

Give him to me and I’ll make something of him, and I’ll give you a present of a thousand crowns.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, make · To what, where: boy, something, present, you

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. 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	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	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 make	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 make	nsubj
7	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 make	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 something	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 give	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 present	det
19	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 crowns	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thousand	det
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 crowns	nummod
23	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 present	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here		boy	to me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Recipient
2	make	future	I	something			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Product
3	give	future	I	a present of thousand crowns	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient present=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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