The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 12
‘Would you give me a light?’
Who acts: you · What happens: give · To what, where: light, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. 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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 light | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would | you | a light | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient light=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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