The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 28

And I have come from far away to see thee, O Sakatirina, for the spirits of my fathers bade me go seek and fight with thee, lest I should grow fat, and weary of myself.'

Who acts: I, me · What happens: come, see, go, seek, fight, grow · To what, where: thee, fathers bade, fat

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 come	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 away	case
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 away	advcl
10	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 see	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Sakatirina	punct
12	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	13 Sakatirina	case
13	Sakatirina	Sakatirina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spirits	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 spirits	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spirits	det
17	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 bade	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bade	nmod:poss
20	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bade	compound
21	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spirits	nmod
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 go	nsubj
23	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 bade	acl:relcl
24	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fight	cc
26	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seek	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 thee	case
28	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 fight	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grow	punct
30	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	33 grow	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 grow	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 grow	aux
33	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 fight	conj
34	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grow	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 weary	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 weary	cc
37	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 myself	case
39	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 weary	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	I		of Sakatirina; for the spirits of my fathers bade; away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of sakatirina=Initial_Location
2	see	to-infinitive	I not said here	thee		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus
3	go	present	me	my fathers bade not said here		tree rules
4	seek	infinitive	me not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fight	infinitive	me not said here		with thee	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with thou=Co-Agent
6	grow	should	I	fat		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fat=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 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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