The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 105

I must go; I pray you, ill God’s name, tell me the way.”

Who acts: I, God · What happens: go, pray, tell, name · To what, where: you, way, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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, God), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 pray	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 pray	nsubj
6	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 go	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pray	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 name	punct
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 name	amod
10	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 name	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 God	case
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pray	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	must	I				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pray	present	I	you		God's ill name obl	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here	the way	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic
4	name		God				nom name «communication 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 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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