The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 48
‘He can certainly give it us, and ought to do so willingly.
Who acts: Go · What happens: give, do · To what, where: cottage, us
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Go), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | obj |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 do | cc |
| 10 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 willingly | advmod |
| 14 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 12 do | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | can | Go | cottage | us | certainly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient it=Theme | ||
| 2 | do | ought | Go not said here | willingly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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