The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 171
Still, if you will give us your purse, you shall have her for your wife.’
Who acts: you · What happens: give, have · To what, where: purse, us, daughter
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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 13 have | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | advcl |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 purse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | future | you | your purse | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient purse=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | shall | you | daughter | still | for your wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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