The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 80
But you shall return to your mistress, and throw yourself at her feet and weep, and perhaps she will help us.”
Who acts: you, mistress · What happens: return, throw, weep, help · To what, where: yourself, feet, us
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mistress), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 return | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 return | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 return | aux |
| 4 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mistress | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 return | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 throw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 throw | cc |
| 10 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 return | conj |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 throw | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 throw | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 weep | cc |
| 16 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 throw | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 help | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 help | cc |
| 19 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 22 help | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 help | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 help | aux |
| 22 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 return | conj |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 help | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 return | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | shall | you | to your mistress result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mistress=Result | ||||
| 2 | throw | infinitive | you not said here | yourself | mistress's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | weep | infinitive | you not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | help | future | mistress | us | perhaps property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |
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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