English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 40
“If you will give me first that gold watch and chain in your hand.”
Who acts: you · What happens: give · To what, where: gold watch, watchmaker, hand
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 give | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 watch | det |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watch | compound |
| 10 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 chain | cc |
| 12 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watch | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | you | that gold watch and chain | the watchmaker = watchmaker | your hand | first property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient watch=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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