The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 41

Give two bits to your wife to eat, two to your horse, and plant the remaining two in your garden, and they will bring you a blessing.’

Who acts: you, bits · What happens: give, eat, plant, remain, bring · To what, where: two bits, wife, two, garden, blessing, you

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bits), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bits	nummod
3	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 two	punct
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 eat	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 horse	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 horse	nmod:poss
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 two	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 plant	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 plant	cc
16	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 remaining	det
18	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 plant	xcomp
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 remaining	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 garden	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 garden	nmod:poss
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 remaining	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bring	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bring	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bring	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 bring	aux
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 bring	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 blessing	det
30	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	two bits	your wife			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bit=Theme to wife=Recipient
2	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here	two			to your horse	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient
3	plant	infinitive	you not said here					tree rules
4	remain	gerund	you not said here	two		your garden		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme two=Attribute
5	bring	future	bits = bit	a blessing	you			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination blessing=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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