The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 128
If a boy is born to you, you must give him to me!’
Who acts: you · What happens: bear, give · To what, where: boy, you, brother
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 born | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 born | aux:pass |
| 5 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 give | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 born | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 born | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | a boy | you | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | must | you | brother | to me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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