The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 86
Speak to me but once; I am your Ilonka.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: me, Ilonka · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Speak | obl |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 once | cc |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Speak | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ilonka | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Ilonka | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Ilonka | cop |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Ilonka | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Ilonka | Ilonka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Speak | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | your Ilonka | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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