The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 50
Only give me a horse for my journey, and I wager you’ll soon see me back again.’
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: give, wager, see back, journey · To what, where: horse, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (you, I, my), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 give | advmod |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 give | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 journey | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 journey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wager | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wager | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wager | nsubj |
| 12 | wager | wager | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wager | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 see | advmod |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 see | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | a horse | me | for my journey | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horse=Theme for journey=Asset | ||
| 2 | wager | present | I | vn risk-94 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | see back | future | you | me | again | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | journey | my | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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