The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 67
‘Give me your advice; what shall I do--have my supper as usual, or set out in pursuit of them?’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, do, have, set out, pursue · To what, where: advice, me, supper, pursuit, horses
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 advice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 do | obj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Give | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 supper | nmod:poss |
| 14 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 usual | case |
| 16 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Give | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Give | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 pursuit | case |
| 22 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pursuit | nmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | your advice | me | as usual | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient advice=Theme | ||
| 2 | do | shall | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | have | infinitive | you not said here | my supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | ||||
| 4 | set out | participle | you not said here | pursuit of horses | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pursue | horses = horse | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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