The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 57
You shall have my baby, if you will only let me go.”
Who acts: You, me · What happens: have, let, go · To what, where: baby, me
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, me), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 baby | nmod:poss |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 let | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 let | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | aux |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 let | advmod |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | You | my baby | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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