The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 44
‘I make you a present of what you have broken off; take as much of it as you think proper.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: make, break off, take, think · To what, where: present, you, much
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 present | det |
| 6 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 present | nmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 broken | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 broken | aux |
| 11 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 broken | compound:prt |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 much | nmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 think | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 think | nsubj |
| 21 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | advcl |
| 22 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 21 think | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | I | a present | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary present=Product | |||
| 2 | break off | present · perfect | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | I not said here | much of present | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | you | properly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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