The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 108
I now give it to you, and be careful what you do with it.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, be, do · To what, where: ring, you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 give | advmod |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 careful | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 careful | cc |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 careful | cop |
| 10 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 give | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 do | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 careful | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | ring | you | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is | infinitive | I not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present | you | with ring | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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