Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 27
Will you lend me your best pair of scales?"
Who acts: you · What happens: lend · To what, where: best pair, me
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 lend | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 lend | nsubj |
| 3 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lend | iobj |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 pair | amod |
| 7 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lend | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 scales | case |
| 9 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pair | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 lend | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | future | you | your best pair of scales | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pair=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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