The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 46
‘Give me the paper that I may sign it,’ and they obeyed.
Who acts: you, paper, strangers · What happens: give, sign, obey · To what, where: paper, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (you, paper, strangers), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 paper | det |
| 5 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sign | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sign | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sign | aux |
| 9 | sign | sign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 paper | acl:relcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sign | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 obeyed | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 obeyed | nsubj |
| 15 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | conj |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | the paper | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient paper=Theme | |||
| 2 | sign | may | the paper | paper | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | obey | past | strangers = stranger | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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