The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 51

Come here and I will soften you to wax beneath my club.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, soften · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Come	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 soften	cc
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 soften	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 soften	aux
6	soften	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Come	conj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 soften	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 wax	mark
9	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soften	xcomp
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 club	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 club	nmod:poss
12	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soften	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here			here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	soften	future	I	you				beneath my club	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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