The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 90
If you really love me, do not forbid me to make this journey, but help me as far as you can.
Who acts: you · What happens: love, not forbid, make, help · To what, where: me, journey
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 love | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 love | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 love | advmod |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 forbid | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 love | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 love | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 forbid | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 forbid | advmod |
| 9 | forbid | forbid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 forbid | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 forbid | advcl |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 journey | det |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 help | cc |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 forbid | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 help | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 far | advmod |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 help | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 can | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 can | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 far | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 forbid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not forbid | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | this journey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product | ||||
| 4 | help | infinitive | you not said here | me | far property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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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