The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 35
If you will make him over to me, I will let you off your debt.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: make over, let off · To what, where: Mark, me, debt, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 make | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | aux |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 let | compound:prt |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 debt | nmod:poss |
| 16 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 let | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make over a condition, not said to happen | future | you | Mark | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | |||
| 2 | let off | future | I | your debt | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient debt=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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