The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 15
If you will let me out I will give you some magic books, which will make you wiser than any other man.’
Who acts: you, I, magic books · What happens: let out, give, make · To what, where: me, magic books, you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. 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, magic books), 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 let | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 let | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | aux |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 give | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 let | compound:prt |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 books | det |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 books | compound |
| 13 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 books | acl:relcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 man | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wiser | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let out a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | some magic books | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient book=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | future | some magic books | you | wise property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=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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