The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 41
I am dying of thirst, let go! in God’s name.’
Who acts: I, you, God · What happens: die, let, go, name · To what, where: name
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, God), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 dying | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dying | aux |
| 3 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 let | advcl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 thirst | case |
| 5 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dying | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dying | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 name | case |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 God | case |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present · progressive | I | of thirst | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer | ||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | you not said here | God's name | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in name=Location | ||||
| 4 | name | God | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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