The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 50

May we be preserved from all the sort of them!

What happens: preserve, sort · To what, where: we, stories

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 preserved	aux
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 preserved	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 preserved	aux:pass
4	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 sort	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sort	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sort	det
8	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 preserved	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sort	nmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 preserved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	preserve	may · passive		we				from all sort of stories	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from sort=Theme
2	sort			stories = story					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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