The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 54
Let me go, I pray you, with my brothers.
Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: let, go, pray · To what, where: me, you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. 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, 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pray | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 pray | nsubj |
| 6 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pray | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brothers | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 brothers | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pray | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pray | present | I | you | with my brothers | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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