The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 15
What can a dog be to you, that you should give your life for him like this?
Who acts: dog, you · What happens: be, give · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 give | obl |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 you | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 you | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 you | cop |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 this | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 give | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | a dog | to you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | should | you | your life | for dog; like this | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Theme for he=Asset |
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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