The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 49
'But at least let me share your grief,' urged the queen.
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, share, urge · To what, where: me, least, grief, queen
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 let | cc |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 least | case |
| 4 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 let | obl |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 grief | nmod:poss |
| 9 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 share | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 urged | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 urged | punct |
| 12 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 urged | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | least | tree rules | |||
| 2 | share | infinitive | me not said here | your grief | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | urge | past | you not said here | the queen | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient |
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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