The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 73
Then the youth said to the dwarf: ‘Give me your wand in order that I may part the waves.’
Who acts: youth, I · What happens: say, give, part · To what, where: wand, me, order, waves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 dwarf | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dwarf | det |
| 7 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Give | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Give | punct |
| 10 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Give | iobj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Give | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 order | case |
| 15 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Give | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 part | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 part | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 part | aux |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Give | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 waves | det |
| 21 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 part | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Give | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | then | to the dwarf | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to dwarf=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | give | infinitive | your wand | me | order | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wand=Theme | |||
| 3 | part | may | I | the waves | tree rules |
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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