The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 125
If I keep you, will you give me your clothes and wear some that I will provide you with?
Who acts: I, you · What happens: keep, give, wear, provide · To what, where: you, clothes, me, some
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | _ | 3 keep | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 give | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wear | cc |
| 13 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 give | conj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 wear | obj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 provide | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 provide | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 provide | aux |
| 18 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wear | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 provide | iobj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 provide | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep a condition, not said to happen | present | I | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | future | you | your clothes | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clothes=Theme | |||
| 3 | wear | infinitive | you not said here | some | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent some=Source | ||||
| 4 | provide | future | I | you | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition you=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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