The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 23

Leave me alone, and let me die quietly.”

Who acts: you, me · What happens: leave, let, die · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. 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	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Leave	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	8 die	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Leave	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	me	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	me		tree rules
3	die	infinitive	me not said here		quietly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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