The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 31

‘You had better hand her over to me.

Who acts: You · What happens: have, hand over · To what, where: Fairy, me

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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 had	xcomp
5	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hand	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	5 hand	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hand	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	You					good property	tree rules
2	hand over	infinitive	You not said here	Fairy	me				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to i=Destination

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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