The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 84

But perhaps you will allow me to go with you and show you the way?'

Who acts: you · What happens: allow, go, show · To what, where: me, way, you

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	5 allow	cc
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 allow	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 allow	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 allow	aux
5	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 allow	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 allow	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 go	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 show	cc
12	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 go	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 show	iobj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 show	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 allow	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	allow	future	you		me	perhaps property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			with you	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary
3	show	present	you not said here	the way	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic

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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