The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 73

I can be your guide no longer, therefore listen to what I say, and obey me.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, listen, say, obey · To what, where: guide, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 guide	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 guide	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 guide	cop
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 guide	nmod:poss
5	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 longer	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 guide	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 listen	punct
9	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	10 listen	advmod
10	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 guide	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 listen	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 obey	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 obey	cc
17	obey	obey	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 listen	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 obey	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 guide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	can	I	your guide	long property	tree rules
2	listen	infinitive			to your guide; therefore property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	obey	infinitive		me		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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