The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 18

So give me arms, and let me go, I pray you; me and my dog too.”

Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: give, let, go, pray · To what, where: arms, me, you

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. 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, I), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 give	advmod
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
4	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 let	cc
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 give	conj
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pray	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 pray	nsubj
12	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	advcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 pray	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 me	punct
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dog	cc
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dog	nmod:poss
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 me	conj
19	too	too	ADV	_	2 give	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	arms	me	tree rules
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	me		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	me not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pray	present	I	you		tree rules

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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