The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 275
Do they give one wit, or will they increase one’s beauty?’
Who acts: crowns · What happens: give, increase · To what, where: one wit, one beauty
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 (crowns), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wit | nummod |
| 5 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 increase | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 increase | cc |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 increase | aux |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 increase | nsubj |
| 10 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 beauty | nummod |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 one | case |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 increase | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · do-support | crowns = crown | one wit | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | increase | future | crowns = crown | one beauty | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer beauty=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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