The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 69
Come back, we pray you, next Sunday to give us another treat.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: come back, pray, give · To what, where: you, treat, us
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pray | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pray | nsubj |
| 5 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pray | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sunday | punct |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Sunday | amod |
| 9 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pray | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pray | advcl |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 treat | det |
| 14 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pray | present | we | you | sunday | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | we not said here | another treat | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient treat=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: «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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