The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 80
‘You may well give me a watch, for since I have known you I have lost the power of measuring time.
Who acts: You, I, power · What happens: give, know, lose, measure · To what, where: watch, me, you, power
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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, power), 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 | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 watch | det |
| 8 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 known | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 known | mark |
| 11 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 known | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 known | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 known | aux |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 give | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 known | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 lost | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lost | aux |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 known | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 power | det |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | obj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 measuring | mark |
| 22 | measuring | measure | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 power | acl |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 measuring | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | may | You | a watch | me | well property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient watch=Theme | ||
| 2 | know | present · perfect | I | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lose | present · perfect | I | the power | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | measure | gerund | the power not said here | time | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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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