The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 113
May I give them a stroke with my rod, then I shall not be afraid of them.’
Who acts: I · What happens: give, not be · To what, where: stroke, beasts
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stroke | det |
| 6 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 rod | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 rod | nmod:poss |
| 9 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 afraid | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 afraid | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 afraid | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 afraid | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 afraid | cop |
| 16 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 give | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 afraid | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | may | I | a stroke | beasts = beast | with my rod | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient stroke=Theme | ||
| 2 | not is | shall | I | then | of beasts = beast; afraid property | tree rules |
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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