The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 63
'By your favour let me go, and do not kill me.'
Who acts: you, me, your · What happens: let, go, not kill, favour · To what, where: me
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, your), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 favour | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 favour | nmod:poss |
| 4 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kill | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kill | cc |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 kill | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 kill | advmod |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 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 | by your favour | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not kill | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | favour | your | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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