The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 104

Only let me see you smile again.”

Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, see, smile · To what, where: me, you

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 let	advmod
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	xcomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 smile	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me		tree rules
2	see	infinitive	me not said here	you		tree rules
3	smile	infinitive	you not said here		again	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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