More English Fairy Tales, LV. Lawkamercyme, sentence 7
Lest, like the simple Arab in the tale, I grow perplext, O God! 'twixt ME and THEE, If I--this Spirit that inspires me whence?
Who acts: I, you, Spirit · What happens: grow, twixt, inspire · To what, where: perplext, ME
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Spirit), 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 | Lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 6 Arab | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Arab | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 Arab | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Arab | det |
| 5 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Arab | amod |
| 6 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grow | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tale | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tale | det |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Arab | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Arab | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 grow | nsubj |
| 12 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 twixt | advcl |
| 13 | perplext | perplext | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grow | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 God | punct |
| 15 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 16 God | discourse |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 perplext | appos |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 God | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 God | punct |
| 19 | twixt | twixt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | ME | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 twixt | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 THEE | cc |
| 22 | THEE | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 ME | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Spirit | punct |
| 24 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 Spirit | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 Spirit | nsubj |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 Spirit | punct |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 Spirit | det |
| 28 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 inspires | nsubj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 inspires | nsubj |
| 30 | inspires | inspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 twixt | parataxis |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 inspires | obj |
| 32 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 inspires | advmod |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 twixt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | I | perplext | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location perplext=Theme | ||||
| 2 | twixt | imperative | you not said here | ME | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | inspire | present | this Spirit | me | whence property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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