The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 31
Do let me come too, and live in one of your trees.
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, come, live · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | aux |
| 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 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 live | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 live | cc |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 live | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 trees | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 trees | nmod:poss |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | me not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | present | in one of your trees | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location |
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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