The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 4

Now sit here, and I will bind you.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: sit, bind · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sit	advmod
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sit	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bind	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bind	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 bind	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bind	aux
8	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sit	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 bind	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here			here	now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bind	future	I	you					vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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